U+AB0C "ꬌ" Ethiopic Syllable Ddhee Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꬌ
U+AB0C "ꬌ" Ethiopic Syllable Ddhee is a specialized glyph within the Ethiopic Extended-A block, representing a syllable used in certain orthographies that require additional signs beyond the classical Ge'ez script. This character is formed by combining a base consonant with the vowel sound "e" as indicated by its name, and it is utilized in modern transcriptions of Ethiopian and Eritrean languages, though it is not part of the standard core Ethiopic syllabary. Its inclusion in Unicode facilitates the digital encoding of linguistic texts that document rare or historical speech sounds.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+AB0C |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | Ethiopic Syllable Ddhee |
| Block | Ethiopic Extended-A |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꬌ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꬌ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xAC 0x8C |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xAB0C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000AB0C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uab0c |