U+120F "" Ethiopic Syllable Lwa Unicode Character

Unicode Version 18.0

Source: Noto Sans Ethiopic Source: Browser Default

U+120F "" Ethiopic Syllable Lwa is a symbol from the Geʽez script, historically used for liturgical and classical Ethiopic languages and now primarily for modern Amharic and Tigrinya. It represents the consonant "l" combined with the vowel "wa," making it a specific syllabic unit within the abugida writing system where each character denotes a consonant-vowel pairing. This character is part of the Ethiopic block in Unicode, which encodes over 300 syllables to support the script's complex set of modifications based on vowel patterns.

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding
ሏ
HTML Hex Encoding
ሏ
UTF-8 Encoding
0xE1 0x88 0x8F
UTF-16 Encoding
0x120F
UTF-32 Encoding
0x0000120F
C/C++/Java Escape
\u120f