U+2D82 "ⶂ" Ethiopic Syllable Roa Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ⶂ
U+2D82 "ⶂ" Ethiopic Syllable Roa is a glyph from the Ethiopic Extended block, representing a syllable in the Geʽez script used for writing languages such as Amharic and Tigrinya. It specifically denotes the sound "roa," formed by combining the consonant root for "r" with a vowel modification, and its inclusion in Unicode supports the digital representation of the liturgical and literary traditions of the Horn of Africa.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2D82 |
| Version Added | 4.1 |
| Name | Ethiopic Syllable Roa |
| Block | Ethiopic Extended |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ⶂ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ⶂ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0xB6 0x82 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2D82 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002D82 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2d82 |