U+2DA0 "ⶠ" Ethiopic Syllable Ssa Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ⶠ
U+2DA0 "ⶠ" Ethiopic Syllable Ssa is a glyph used in the Geʽez script, specifically representing a syllabic sound in languages such as Amharic and Tigrinya. It corresponds to the consonant "Ṣ" combined with the vowel "a," forming the syllable "ssa" and is part of the Ethiopic Extended block of Unicode, which was added to support additional phonetic distinctions in the writing system. This character is typically employed in liturgical and modern contexts where precise transliteration or representation of the ejective or emphatic consonant sound is required in written text.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2DA0 |
| Version Added | 4.1 |
| Name | Ethiopic Syllable Ssa |
| Block | Ethiopic Extended |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ⶠ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ⶠ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0xB6 0xA0 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2DA0 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002DA0 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2da0 |