U+2DB5 "ⶵ" Ethiopic Syllable Zze Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ⶵ
U+2DB5 "ⶵ" Ethiopic Syllable Zze is a part of the Ethiopic Extended-A block, representing a syllable used in the Geʽez script for languages like Amharic and Tigrinya. It corresponds to the consonant sound "zz" combined with a vowel, specifically the sixth order vowel which is typically pronounced as "e" or "ə" depending on the language. This character is derived from the base consonant Ze with a diacritical modification to denote the ejective or emphatic pronunciation, and it is used in transliteration and orthography for certain Semitic languages of Ethiopia and Eritrea.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2DB5 |
| Version Added | 4.1 |
| Name | Ethiopic Syllable Zze |
| Block | Ethiopic Extended |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ⶵ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ⶵ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0xB6 0xB5 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2DB5 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002DB5 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2db5 |