U+AB14 "ꬔ" Ethiopic Syllable Dzee Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꬔ
U+AB14 "ꬔ" Ethiopic Syllable Dzee is a symbol within the Ethiopic Extended-A block, representing a specific syllable in the Geʽez script used for certain languages in the Horn of Africa, such as Amharic or Tigrinya. It combines a consonant sound, typically transcribed as "dz", with the vowel sound "ee" (or long "e"), creating a distinct phonetic unit. This character is part of a larger system of syllabic symbols that expand the classical Ethiopic script to accommodate additional sounds found in modern Ethiopic languages.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+AB14 |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | Ethiopic Syllable Dzee |
| Block | Ethiopic Extended-A |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꬔ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꬔ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xAC 0x94 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xAB14 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000AB14 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uab14 |