U+2DDD "ⷝ" Ethiopic Syllable Gye Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ⷝ
U+2DDD "ⷝ" Ethiopic Syllable Gye is a symbol used in the Geʽez script, which is traditionally employed for writing the Ethiopic languages of the Horn of Africa, including Amharic and Tigrinya. This specific character represents a syllable composed of the consonant "g" combined with the vowel "e," forming the sound "gye." It belongs to the Unicode block known as Ethiopic Extended, which includes additional syllables and modifiers beyond the core Geʽez syllabary to accommodate linguistic variations. The character is encoded for use in digital text, allowing for accurate representation of written Ethiopic in modern computing environments.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2DDD |
| Version Added | 4.1 |
| Name | Ethiopic Syllable Gye |
| Block | Ethiopic Extended |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ⷝ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ⷝ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0xB7 0x9D |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2DDD |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002DDD |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2ddd |