U+2DB3 "ⶳ" Ethiopic Syllable Zzaa Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ⶳ
U+2DB3 "ⶳ" Ethiopic Syllable Zzaa is part of the Ethiopic Extended block, representing a specific syllable used in the Geʽez script for writing certain Ethiopian and Eritrean languages, such as Amharic or Tigrinya. It denotes the sound "zzaa," which is a dental or alveolar affricate consonant combined with the vowel "aa," and is created by adding a diacritic or modifying the base character for the syllable "zza" to indicate the longer vowel. This character is one of many extensions to the standard Ethiopic syllabary, enabling precise phonetic representation in texts that require this specific articulation.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2DB3 |
| Version Added | 4.1 |
| Name | Ethiopic Syllable Zzaa |
| Block | Ethiopic Extended |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ⶳ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ⶳ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0xB6 0xB3 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2DB3 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002DB3 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2db3 |