U+1262 "ቢ" Ethiopic Syllable Bi Unicode Character
Unicode Version 18.0
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U+1262 "ቢ" Ethiopic Syllable Bi is a character from the Ethiopic script, which is used to write languages such as Amharic, Tigrinya, and Ge'ez in the Horn of Africa. This specific character represents the syllable "bi," formed by combining the consonant "b" (approximating the sound of the English letter B) with the vowel "i," a common syllabic structure in this abugida writing system where each character corresponds to a consonant-vowel pairing. "ቢ" is part of a larger set of Ethiopic syllables that are linguistically and culturally significant, enabling the accurate transcription and preservation of these ancient and modern Semitic languages.
General Properties
Code Point
U+1262
Name
Ethiopic Syllable Bi
Encodings
HTML Decimal Encoding
ቢ
HTML Hex Encoding
ቢ
UTF-8 Encoding
0xE1 0x89 0xA2
UTF-16 Encoding
0x1262
UTF-32 Encoding
0x00001262
C/C++/Java Escape
\u1262
Unicode Properties
Numeric Value
NaN
Script Extensions
Ethiopic