U+2DB8 "ⶸ" Ethiopic Syllable Ccha Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ⶸ
U+2DB8 "ⶸ" Ethiopic Syllable Ccha is a glyph used in the Geʽez script, representing a specific consonant-vowel syllable in the Ethiopian Semitic languages. It corresponds to the sound of the consonant "C" (a palatal or postalveolar affricate) combined with the vowel "a," and it belongs to a historical or liturgical extension of the Unicode Ethiopic block. This character is primarily encountered in scholarly texts, religious manuscripts, or modern digital representations of languages such as Geʽez, Tigrinya, or Amharic, though it is less common in everyday contemporary writing.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2DB8 |
| Version Added | 4.1 |
| Name | Ethiopic Syllable Ccha |
| Block | Ethiopic Extended |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ⶸ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ⶸ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0xB6 0xB8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2DB8 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002DB8 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2db8 |