U+2DCE "ⷎ" Ethiopic Syllable Kyo Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ⷎ
U+2DCE "ⷎ" Ethiopic Syllable Kyo is part of the Ethiopic Extended block, representing a specific syllabic sound in the Ge'ez script used for languages such as Amharic and Tigrinya. This character is a variant of the base consonant "ከ" (ka) modified with a diacritic to indicate the vowel "yo", functioning as a distinct phonetic unit in the Ge'ez syllabary. It contributes to the extensive writing system that organizes consonants into series based on attached vowel signs, allowing for precise representation of the language's sounds.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2DCE |
| Version Added | 4.1 |
| Name | Ethiopic Syllable Kyo |
| Block | Ethiopic Extended |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ⷎ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ⷎ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0xB7 0x8E |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2DCE |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002DCE |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2dce |