U+AB05 "ꬅ" Ethiopic Syllable Tthe Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꬅ
U+AB05 "ꬅ" Ethiopic Syllable Tthe is a specific letter in the extended Ethiopic script, used to represent a consonant vowel sequence in certain languages of the Horn of Africa, particularly those requiring additional characters beyond the standard Ge'ez syllabary. This character corresponds to the sound of a retroflex or emphatic "t" followed by a falling vowel, often transcribed as "tthe" in linguistic and pedagogical contexts. It is part of the Ethiopic Extended block of Unicode, which was introduced to support the full orthographic needs of languages like Gamo, Gofa, and some other Omotic and Semitic tongues.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+AB05 |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | Ethiopic Syllable Tthe |
| Block | Ethiopic Extended-A |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꬅ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꬅ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xAC 0x85 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xAB05 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000AB05 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uab05 |