U+2DCD "ⷍ" Ethiopic Syllable Kye Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ⷍ
U+2DCD "ⷍ" Ethiopic Syllable Kye is a glyph belonging to the Ethiopic Extended block, used to represent a specific syllable in the Geʽez script for writing languages such as Amharic or Tigrinya. This character denotes the syllable "kye," which combines the consonant sound /k/ with the vowel /e/, and it is part of a set of additional syllabic forms that extend the basic Ethiopic syllabary. Its inclusion in Unicode ensures accurate digital representation and text processing for languages that utilize this syllable in their writing systems, facilitating modern electronic communication in these African languages.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2DCD |
| Version Added | 4.1 |
| Name | Ethiopic Syllable Kye |
| Block | Ethiopic Extended |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ⷍ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ⷍ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0xB7 0x8D |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2DCD |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002DCD |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2dcd |