U+AB0A "ꬊ" Ethiopic Syllable Ddhi Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꬊ
U+AB0A "ꬊ" Ethiopic Syllable Ddhi is a specific glyph within the Ethiopic Extended-A block, representing a syllable in the Ge'ez script used for certain Ethiopian and Eritrean languages. This character denotes a voiced dental implosive consonant sound, like a "dd" pronounced with a glottal ingressive airflow, followed by the vowel "i." It is part of a set of extensions designed to accommodate sounds not covered by the standard Ethiopic syllabary, often employed in linguistically rich languages such as Sebat Bet Gurage or other Ethiopic-based orthographies. Designed for phonetic transcription and modern language documentation, this syllable aids in accurately representing diverse phonemic inventories in written form.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+AB0A |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | Ethiopic Syllable Ddhi |
| Block | Ethiopic Extended-A |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꬊ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꬊ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xAC 0x8A |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xAB0A |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000AB0A |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uab0a |