U+2DDB "ⷛ" Ethiopic Syllable Gyaa Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ⷛ
U+2DDB "ⷛ" Ethiopic Syllable Gyaa is a glyph from the Ethiopic Extended-A block, used in the Geʽez script to represent the syllable "gyaa". It is formed by modifying the base consonant character for the sound "g" with a diacritic that indicates the vowel "aa" or a palatalized variant, and it is employed in the transcription of certain languages that utilize the Ethiopic writing system, such as Amharic or Tigrinya, to denote a specific phoneme not covered by the standard syllabary.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2DDB |
| Version Added | 4.1 |
| Name | Ethiopic Syllable Gyaa |
| Block | Ethiopic Extended |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ⷛ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ⷛ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0xB7 0x9B |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2DDB |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002DDB |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2ddb |