U+2D95 "ⶕ" Ethiopic Syllable Ggwee Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ⶕ
U+2D95 "ⶕ" Ethiopic Syllable Ggwee is a character in the Ethiopic script used primarily for the Geʽez language and other languages of the Horn of Africa. This particular character represents a syllable formed by the consonant "gg" combined with the vowel "wee," contributing to the phonetic representation of speech in writing systems such as Amharic and Tigrinya. As part of the Ethiopic Extended block, it is distinct from the more common unvoweled characters because it encodes a specific vowel iteration. Its inclusion in Unicode ensures that digital text can accurately reproduce this syllable for scholarly, liturgical, or modern linguistic use.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2D95 |
| Version Added | 4.1 |
| Name | Ethiopic Syllable Ggwee |
| Block | Ethiopic Extended |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ⶕ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ⶕ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0xB6 0x95 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2D95 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002D95 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2d95 |