U+2DC6 "ⷆ" Ethiopic Syllable Qyo Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
U+2DC6 "ⷆ" Ethiopic Syllable Qyo is a glyph used in the Geʽez script, which is primarily employed for writing several languages in the Horn of Africa, including Amharic and Tigrinya. This specific character represents a syllable consisting of the consonant sound "q" combined with the vowel sound "yo," formed by attaching a distinctive diacritical mark to the base consonant sign. It belongs to the Ethiopic Extended block of the Unicode standard, which was designed to support a wide range of phonetic variations needed for accurate transcription of these languages. In digital text, this character enables precise representation of syllables that appear in liturgical, historical, and modern writing, preserving the linguistic richness of the Ethiopic syllabary.
General Properties
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding |
ⷆ |
| HTML Hex Encoding |
ⷆ |
| UTF-8 Encoding |
0xE2 0xB7 0x86 |
| UTF-16 Encoding |
0x2DC6 |
| UTF-32 Encoding |
0x00002DC6 |
| C/C++/Java Escape |
\u2dc6 |
Unicode Properties