U+AB28 "ꬨ" Ethiopic Syllable Bba Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꬨ
U+AB28 "ꬨ" Ethiopic Syllable Bba is a specific glyph within the extended Ethiopic block, used to represent a labialized bilabial plosive sound in certain languages that employ the Ge'ez script, such as Me'en or other Omotic and Nilo-Saharan languages. This character is formed by modifying the base Ethiopic syllable for "ba" to indicate a more emphatic or implosive pronunciation, which is a common phonetic distinction in these linguistic contexts. It is encoded in the Unicode Standard to support accurate digital representation and preservation of these languages' writing systems.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+AB28 |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | Ethiopic Syllable Bba |
| Block | Ethiopic Extended-A |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꬨ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꬨ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xAC 0xA8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xAB28 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000AB28 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uab28 |