U+2D8A "ⶊ" Ethiopic Syllable Glottal Oa Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ⶊ
U+2D8A "ⶊ" Ethiopic Syllable Glottal Oa is a specific glyph within the Ethiopic script, used for writing certain languages in the Horn of Africa, such as Ge'ez, Amharic, or Tigrinya. It represents a syllable that combines a glottal stop consonant with the vowel sound "oa", which is a variant of the more common "o" vowel. This character is part of the Ethiopic Extended block of Unicode, which includes additional syllables and labiovelar variations not found in the core Ethiopic set. Its use is specialized and primarily appears in scholarly or liturgical contexts where precise phonetic transcription or older textual forms are required.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2D8A |
| Version Added | 4.1 |
| Name | Ethiopic Syllable Glottal Oa |
| Block | Ethiopic Extended |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ⶊ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ⶊ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0xB6 0x8A |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2D8A |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002D8A |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2d8a |