U+2DC3 "ⷃ" Ethiopic Syllable Qyaa Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ⷃ
U+2DC3 "ⷃ" Ethiopic Syllable Qyaa is part of the Ethiopic Extended block, representing a syllabic symbol used in the Geʽez script for writing certain Ethiopian and Eritrean languages. This character specifically encodes the syllable "qyaa," which combines the consonant sound "q" with a modified vowel that differs from the standard syllabic forms found in the core Ethiopic set. It is among the supplementary characters added to support phonetic distinctions in less common or specialized lexical contexts, aiding accurate transcription and digital representation of languages like Amharic, Tigrinya, or Geʽez itself in modern computing systems.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2DC3 |
| Version Added | 4.1 |
| Name | Ethiopic Syllable Qyaa |
| Block | Ethiopic Extended |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ⷃ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ⷃ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0xB7 0x83 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2DC3 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002DC3 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2dc3 |