U+2D89 "ⶉ" Ethiopic Syllable Nyoa Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ⶉ
U+2D89 "ⶉ" Ethiopic Syllable Nyoa is a glyph used in the Ge'ez script, representing a syllable composed of the consonant "ny" and the vowel "o." It is part of the Ethiopic Extended block, which includes additional syllables for languages like Amharic and Tigrinya, and its usage follows the standard abugida writing system where each character denotes a consonant vowel combination. This particular syllable is commonly employed in liturgical and modern textual contexts to transcribe sounds specific to certain Ethiopian and Eritrean languages, preserving the phonetic richness of the region's linguistic heritage.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2D89 |
| Version Added | 4.1 |
| Name | Ethiopic Syllable Nyoa |
| Block | Ethiopic Extended |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ⶉ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ⶉ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0xB6 0x89 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2D89 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002D89 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2d89 |