U+123C "ሼ" Ethiopic Syllable Shee Unicode Character
Unicode Version 18.0
Source: Browser Default
U+123C "ሼ" Ethiopic Syllable Shee is a glyph in the Ethiopic script, used for writing languages such as Amharic, Tigrinya, and Ge’ez, where it represents the syllabic sound "shee" (with a long vowel). It belongs to the Ethiopic block of Unicode and is derived from the Ge’ez abugida, a writing system where each character combines a consonant and a vowel. In typographic contexts, this character is typically rendered using an Ethiopic font, and it holds linguistic and cultural significance for communities in the Horn of Africa, particularly in liturgical and modern textual traditions.
General Properties
Code Point
U+123C
Name
Ethiopic Syllable Shee
Encodings
HTML Decimal Encoding
ሼ
HTML Hex Encoding
ሼ
UTF-8 Encoding
0xE1 0x88 0xBC
UTF-16 Encoding
0x123C
UTF-32 Encoding
0x0000123C
C/C++/Java Escape
\u123c
Unicode Properties
Numeric Value
NaN
Script Extensions
Ethiopic