U+2DD6 "ⷖ" Ethiopic Syllable Xyo Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+2DD6 "ⷖ" Ethiopic Syllable Xyo is a glyph used in the Geʽez script to represent a specific syllabic sound, derived from the base consonant for "x" combined with the vowel "yo," and it is part of the extended Ethiopic block designed to support the writing of various languages in the Horn of Africa, such as Amharic and Tigrinya, as well as liturgical Geʽez.

General Properties

Code Point U+2DD6
Version Added 4.1
Name Ethiopic Syllable Xyo
Block Ethiopic Extended
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ⷖ
HTML Hex Encoding ⷖ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE2 0xB7 0x96
UTF-16 Encoding 0x2DD6
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00002DD6
C/C++/Java Escape \u2dd6

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