U+120A "ሊ" Ethiopic Syllable Li Unicode Character
Unicode Version 18.0
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U+120A "ሊ" Ethiopic Syllable Li is a character from the Ethiopic script (Geʽez) used for writing the Amharic, Tigrinya, and other languages of the Horn of Africa, representing the syllable "li". It is part of a syllabary system where each base consonant character is modified by diacritic marks or shape changes to indicate different vowels, with the "ሊ" form denoting the vowel sound "i" attached to the consonant "l". This character, along with the rest of the Ethiopic block, was encoded in the Unicode Standard to support digital text processing and preservation of these historically significant African languages.
General Properties
Code Point
U+120A
Name
Ethiopic Syllable Li
Encodings
HTML Decimal Encoding
ሊ
HTML Hex Encoding
ሊ
UTF-8 Encoding
0xE1 0x88 0x8A
UTF-16 Encoding
0x120A
UTF-32 Encoding
0x0000120A
C/C++/Java Escape
\u120a
Unicode Properties
Numeric Value
NaN
Script Extensions
Ethiopic