U+2DDC "ⷜ" Ethiopic Syllable Gyee Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ⷜ
U+2DDC "ⷜ" Ethiopic Syllable Gyee is a specialized glyph used in the Geʽez script, which is employed for writing various Ethiopian and Eritrean languages such as Amharic and Tigrinya. This character represents a syllable consisting of the consonant "g" combined with the vowel "yee," reflecting a specific phonetic sound within the Ethiopic syllabary system. It is part of the Ethiopic Extended block in Unicode, designed to support additional linguistic needs beyond the core syllabic inventory.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2DDC |
| Version Added | 4.1 |
| Name | Ethiopic Syllable Gyee |
| Block | Ethiopic Extended |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ⷜ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ⷜ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0xB7 0x9C |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2DDC |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002DDC |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2ddc |