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

Code Point U+2DC6
Version Added 4.1
Name Ethiopic Syllable Qyo
Block Ethiopic Extended
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

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

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Alphabetic
Script Ethiopic
Script Extensions Ethiopic
Indic Syllabic Category Other
ID Start Yes
XID Start Yes
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Rotated
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Other
Word Break Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break OLetter