U+124B "ቋ" Ethiopic Syllable Qwaa Unicode Character

U+124B "ቋ" Ethiopic Syllable Qwaa is a character in the Geʽez script, used historically for liturgical and modern languages like Amharic and Tigrinya in the Horn of Africa. It represents the syllable pronounced as "qwaa," formed by the consonant sound /q/ combined with the labialization marker and the vowel /a/. This character belongs to a larger set of syllabic signs derived from the Geʽez abugida, where each modification alters the vowel sound attached to a base consonant. In digital contexts, ቋ is encoded under the Ethiopic block of Unicode, enabling its proper display and exchange in electronic documents and text processing systems.