U+2D8F "ⶏ" Ethiopic Syllable Thoa Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ⶏ
U+2D8F "ⶏ" Ethiopic Syllable Thoa is part of the Ethiopic Extended block, used to write the Geʽez script for languages such as Amharic, Tigrinya, and others in the Horn of Africa. This character represents the syllable "thoa," combining the consonant sound /θ/ (transliterated as "th") with the vowel /oa/. It is one of many syllabic signs in the script, which functions as an abugida where each character inherently includes a vowel. Its use is primarily historical and modern in liturgical and linguistic contexts, helping to accurately transcribe sounds that arose from loanwords or dialectal variations within these languages.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2D8F |
| Version Added | 4.1 |
| Name | Ethiopic Syllable Thoa |
| Block | Ethiopic Extended |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ⶏ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ⶏ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0xB6 0x8F |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2D8F |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002D8F |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2d8f |