U+2D8B "ⶋ" Ethiopic Syllable Zoa Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ⶋ
U+2D8B "ⶋ" Ethiopic Syllable Zoa is a glyph from the Ethiopic Extended block, used to represent the syllable "zoa" in the Unicode standard for the Geʽez script. This character is derived from the base consonant for the sound "z" combined with a vowel marker for the /oa/ sound, which is part of certain Ethiopic orthographies for languages like Amharic or Tigrinya. It appears in historical and some modern liturgical texts, along with other extended syllables that capture specific phonetic values beyond the basic set.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2D8B |
| Version Added | 4.1 |
| Name | Ethiopic Syllable Zoa |
| Block | Ethiopic Extended |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ⶋ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ⶋ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0xB6 0x8B |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2D8B |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002D8B |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2d8b |