U+2DDA "ⷚ" Ethiopic Syllable Gyi Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+2DDA "ⷚ" Ethiopic Syllable Gyi is a typographic glyph used in the Ge'ez script, which is traditionally employed for writing liturgical and classical Ethiopic languages. This character represents a specific phonetic syllable, combining the consonant sound "g" with the vowel "i," and its design follows the standard ligature patterns of the Ethiopic writing system where consonant and vowel symbols merge into a single unit. Belonging to the Ethiopic Extended block of Unicode, this syllable is primarily utilized in scholarly or historical contexts, such as in the transcription of ancient religious texts or linguistic studies of the Ethiopian Semitic languages, though it is less common in modern everyday usage.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2DDA |
| Version Added | 4.1 |
| Name | Ethiopic Syllable Gyi |
| Block | Ethiopic Extended |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ⷚ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ⷚ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0xB7 0x9A |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2DDA |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002DDA |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2dda |