U+2DA1 "ⶡ" Ethiopic Syllable Ssu Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ⶡ
U+2DA1 "ⶡ" Ethiopic Syllable Ssu is a specialized glyph from the Ethiopic Extended-A block, representing a syllable in the Ge'ez script used for liturgical and historical texts. This character is formed by modifying the base consonant for "s" with a specific vowel diacritic to produce the "ssu" sound, a feature necessary for accurately transcribing certain phonetic distinctions in Ethiopian Semitic languages. Its inclusion in Unicode ensures that digital systems can preserve and display the full orthographic richness of these languages, particularly for scholarly work and cultural heritage documentation.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2DA1 |
| Version Added | 4.1 |
| Name | Ethiopic Syllable Ssu |
| Block | Ethiopic Extended |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ⶡ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ⶡ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0xB6 0xA1 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2DA1 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002DA1 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2da1 |