U+2D80 "ⶀ" Ethiopic Syllable Loa Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ⶀ
U+2D80 "ⶀ" Ethiopic Syllable Loa is a glyph within the Ethiopic Extended block, specifically representing a phonetic syllable used in the transcription of the Gurage languages of Ethiopia. This character is formed by modifying the base Ethiopic letter "ለ" (La) with a diacritic to indicate a rounded vowel, producing a sound similar to "loa." It is part of a larger set of characters designed to capture the full range of sounds in Gurage dialects, which required additional syllables not present in standard Ge'ez script. The inclusion of U+2D80 in Unicode ensures that digital text can accurately represent this linguistic element, supporting the documentation and use of these minority languages in modern computing environments.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2D80 |
| Version Added | 4.1 |
| Name | Ethiopic Syllable Loa |
| Block | Ethiopic Extended |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ⶀ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ⶀ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0xB6 0x80 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2D80 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002D80 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2d80 |