U+2DC0 "ⷀ" Ethiopic Syllable Qya Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+2DC0 "ⷀ" Ethiopic Syllable Qya is a glyph used in the Geʽez script, which is historically employed for liturgical and classical Ethiopic languages, representing a syllable formed from the consonant /q/ combined with the vowel /ja/. It belongs to the Ethiopic Extended block of the Unicode standard, which was designed to cover additional syllabic forms not included in the basic Ethiopic range. This character is primarily utilized in scholarly and religious contexts for the accurate transcription and digital representation of ancient texts, such as those of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church. Its inclusion in Unicode ensures proper display and preservation of this linguistic element across modern computing systems and documents.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2DC0 |
| Version Added | 4.1 |
| Name | Ethiopic Syllable Qya |
| Block | Ethiopic Extended |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ⷀ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ⷀ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0xB7 0x80 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2DC0 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002DC0 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2dc0 |