U+1228 "ረ" Ethiopic Syllable Ra Unicode Character
Unicode Version 18.0
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U+1228 "ረ" Ethiopic Syllable Ra is a character from the Ethiopic script, which is historically used for writing Ge'ez, Amharic, Tigrinya, and other languages of the Horn of Africa. It represents the syllable "ra," combining the consonant sound "r" with the inherent vowel "ä." In the Unicode standard, it belongs to the Ethiopic block, and its visual form is a distinctive cursive symbol typical of the abugida writing system, where each character denotes a consonant-vowel combination. This character is utilized in modern digital text processing to enable accurate representation and communication in several Afro-Asiatic languages.
General Properties
Code Point
U+1228
Name
Ethiopic Syllable Ra
Encodings
HTML Decimal Encoding
ረ
HTML Hex Encoding
ረ
UTF-8 Encoding
0xE1 0x88 0xA8
UTF-16 Encoding
0x1228
UTF-32 Encoding
0x00001228
C/C++/Java Escape
\u1228
Unicode Properties
Numeric Value
NaN
Script Extensions
Ethiopic