U+AB23 "ꬣ" Ethiopic Syllable Cchhaa Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+AB23 "ꬣ" Ethiopic Syllable Cchhaa is a specialized glyph belonging to the Ethiopic Extended-A block, designed to represent a specific syllable sound used in certain Ethiopian and Eritrean languages. It encodes the consonant "Cchh" combined with the vowel "aa," serving as a phonetic unit for transcribing particular words or dialects where this sound occurs. This character is part of the broader Ethiopic syllabary system, which originally evolved from the Ge'ez script and is used for languages such as Amharic, Tigrinya, and others, though "Cchhaa" is less common and arises in modern orthographic developments. Its inclusion in Unicode ensures digital representation and processing for linguistic research, text preservation, and communication in these languages.

General Properties

Code Point U+AB23
Version Added 6.0
Name Ethiopic Syllable Cchhaa
Block Ethiopic Extended-A
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ꬣ
HTML Hex Encoding ꬣ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEA 0xAC 0xA3
UTF-16 Encoding 0xAB23
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000AB23
C/C++/Java Escape \uab23

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Alphabetic
Script Ethiopic
Script Extensions Ethiopic
Indic Syllabic Category Other
ID Start Yes
XID Start Yes
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Rotated
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Other
Word Break Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break OLetter