U+2DB4 "ⶴ" Ethiopic Syllable Zzee Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ⶴ
U+2DB4 "ⶴ" Ethiopic Syllable Zzee is a glyph representing a specific syllable in the Ge'ez script, used historically for liturgical languages like Ge'ez and Amharic. It is part of the Ethiopic Extended block and corresponds to the consonant "Z" combined with the vowel "ee" (a long e sound, as in "see"). This character is employed in certain modern transcriptions and scholarly contexts for representing sounds that are not standard in the basic Ethiopic syllabary.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2DB4 |
| Version Added | 4.1 |
| Name | Ethiopic Syllable Zzee |
| Block | Ethiopic Extended |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ⶴ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ⶴ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0xB6 0xB4 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2DB4 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002DB4 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2db4 |