U+2DBC "ⶼ" Ethiopic Syllable Cchee Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ⶼ
U+2DBC "ⶼ" Ethiopic Syllable Cchee is a script symbol from the Ethiopic Extended block, used in writing the Gurage languages of Ethiopia. It represents a syllable pronounced as "cchee," which combines the consonant sound "čč" (a palatal ejective or affricate) with the vowel "e" (as in the English word "see"). This character is part of a supplementary series of Ethiopic syllables employed to capture phonetic distinctions not present in Classical Geʽez, and it typically appears in religious or linguistic texts alongside other expanded syllabary forms.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2DBC |
| Version Added | 4.1 |
| Name | Ethiopic Syllable Cchee |
| Block | Ethiopic Extended |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ⶼ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ⶼ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0xB6 0xBC |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2DBC |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002DBC |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2dbc |