U+2D84 "ⶄ" Ethiopic Syllable Shoa Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ⶄ
U+2D84 "ⶄ" Ethiopic Syllable Shoa is a typographic symbol from the Ethiopic Extended block, representing a syllable in the Geʽez script used for languages like Amharic and Tigrinya. It is a specific character in the bisyllabic writing system, functioning as a combination of a consonant sound and a vowel, where the "sh" consonant is paired with the vowel "oa" to form a distinct phonetic unit. This character is part of the expansive Unicode repertoire that enables digital representation and textual processing of ancient and modern Ethiopic languages, preserving their unique linguistic structures in global computing standards.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2D84 |
| Version Added | 4.1 |
| Name | Ethiopic Syllable Shoa |
| Block | Ethiopic Extended |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ⶄ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ⶄ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0xB6 0x84 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2D84 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002D84 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2d84 |