U+2D8C "ⶌ" Ethiopic Syllable Doa Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+2D8C "ⶌ" Ethiopic Syllable Doa is a symbol used in the Geʽez script, which is traditionally employed for writing the Ethiopian and Eritrean languages Geʽez, Amharic, and Tigrinya. This character represents a syllable pronounced as "doa", and it belongs to the Ethiopic block of Unicode, which encodes a vast syllabary system where each character represents a consonant combined with a specific vowel. The syllable Doa is formed by modifying the base consonant letter "Dä" with a vowel diacritic to indicate the "o" sound, reflecting the script's characteristic structure of using a core consonant shape altered by attached vowel marks. This particular glyph is less common than some other Ethiopic syllables but remains an integral part of the orthographic system for accurately representing phonetic sounds in texts.

General Properties

Code Point U+2D8C
Version Added 4.1
Name Ethiopic Syllable Doa
Block Ethiopic Extended
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ⶌ
HTML Hex Encoding ⶌ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE2 0xB6 0x8C
UTF-16 Encoding 0x2D8C
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00002D8C
C/C++/Java Escape \u2d8c

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Alphabetic
Script Ethiopic
Script Extensions Ethiopic
Indic Syllabic Category Other
ID Start Yes
XID Start Yes
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Rotated
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Other
Word Break Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break OLetter