U+2DDE "ⷞ" Ethiopic Syllable Gyo Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+2DDE "ⷞ" Ethiopic Syllable Gyo is a sign used in the Geʽez script, which is the writing system for several languages in the Horn of Africa, including Amharic and Tigrinya. This specific character represents a syllable formed by the consonant "g" and the vowel "yo," and it belongs to a block of supplementary Ethiopic characters introduced to encode additional syllables and labiovelar sounds not covered in the basic Ethiopic set. Its shape is a modification of the standard Ethiopic letter for "g" with a distinct diacritic mark indicating the rounded vowel, allowing precise phonetic representation in liturgical and modern linguistic texts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2DDE |
| Version Added | 4.1 |
| Name | Ethiopic Syllable Gyo |
| Block | Ethiopic Extended |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ⷞ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ⷞ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0xB7 0x9E |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2DDE |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002DDE |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2dde |