U+2DA3 "ⶣ" Ethiopic Syllable Ssaa Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ⶣ
U+2DA3 "ⶣ" Ethiopic Syllable Ssaa is a character in the Ethiopic Extended block used for writing the Saho, Afar, and certain other Cushitic languages, where it represents a syllable typically pronounced with a longer or geminated /s/ sound and the vowel "aa". It is encoded specifically for transliterating or recording these languages in the Geʽez script, supplementing the standard Ethiopic syllable inventory, and is often displayed as a distinct ligature or modified form of the base consonant "ሰ" (se) combined with a vowel marker to produce its unique phonetic value.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2DA3 |
| Version Added | 4.1 |
| Name | Ethiopic Syllable Ssaa |
| Block | Ethiopic Extended |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ⶣ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ⶣ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0xB6 0xA3 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2DA3 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002DA3 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2da3 |