U+AB2D "ꬭ" Ethiopic Syllable Bbe Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꬭ
U+AB2D "ꬭ" Ethiopic Syllable Bbe is a specific glyph within the Ethiopic Extended-B block, representing a syllable in the Geʽez script used historically for liturgical languages like Geʽez and Amharic, and modern languages such as Tigrinya. This character corresponds to the sound "bbe," distinguished from the more common "be" syllable by its bilabial consonant length or emphasis, and it is part of a larger set of syllabic characters that allow for precise phonetic representation in Ethiopic writing systems. Its inclusion in Unicode enables digital encoding and preservation of these linguistic elements across modern computing platforms.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+AB2D |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | Ethiopic Syllable Bbe |
| Block | Ethiopic Extended-A |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꬭ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꬭ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xAC 0xAD |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xAB2D |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000AB2D |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uab2d |