U+2DC1 "ⷁ" Ethiopic Syllable Qyu Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+2DC1 "ⷁ" Ethiopic Syllable Qyu is a glyph used in the Geʽez script, the writing system traditionally employed for liturgical and classical Ethiopic languages. This character represents the syllable "qyu," formed by the consonant "q" combined with the vowel "u," and it belongs to a set of extended Ethiopic syllables encoded in Unicode to support the transcription of various Semitic languages of the Horn of Africa. The syllable Qyu is not commonly used in modern Amharic or Tigrinya but appears in older texts or specialized linguistic contexts where precise phonetic representation is required.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2DC1 |
| Version Added | 4.1 |
| Name | Ethiopic Syllable Qyu |
| Block | Ethiopic Extended |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ⷁ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ⷁ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0xB7 0x81 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2DC1 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002DC1 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2dc1 |