U+2D8D "ⶍ" Ethiopic Syllable Ddoa Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ⶍ
U+2D8D "ⶍ" Ethiopic Syllable Ddoa is a glyph used in the Geʽez script, where it represents a syllable in the Ethiopic writing system for languages like Amharic and Tigrinya. It corresponds to the sound "ddoa," a specific labiovelar variant with a prothetic vowel, and is part of a larger set of characters that extend the basic consonant‑vowel syllables to account for phonetic distinctions in these languages. This character is encoded in the Unicode Ethiopic Extended block, allowing for digital representation and text processing of indigenous Ethiopian and Eritrean linguistic traditions.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2D8D |
| Version Added | 4.1 |
| Name | Ethiopic Syllable Ddoa |
| Block | Ethiopic Extended |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ⶍ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ⶍ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0xB6 0x8D |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2D8D |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002D8D |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2d8d |