U+2DC9 "ⷉ" Ethiopic Syllable Kyu Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+2DC9 "ⷉ" Ethiopic Syllable Kyu is a typographic glyph within the Ethiopic block used for the Ge'ez script that represents the syllable "kyu." This character is part of a set of extensions designed to transcribe additional syllables not found in the classical Ethiopic writing system, often for modern languages like Amharic or Tigrinya. It is formed by modifying a base consonant letter with a diacritic to denote the vowel sound "u," appearing as a distinct variant from the standard syllabary. Its inclusion in Unicode allows for precise digital representation and rendering of this specific phonetic element in texts and documents.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2DC9 |
| Version Added | 4.1 |
| Name | Ethiopic Syllable Kyu |
| Block | Ethiopic Extended |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ⷉ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ⷉ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0xB7 0x89 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2DC9 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002DC9 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2dc9 |