U+1284 "ኄ" Ethiopic Syllable Xee Unicode Character
Unicode Version 18.0
Source: Browser Default
U+1284 "ኄ" Ethiopic Syllable Xee is a character in the Ethiopic script used for writing languages such as Amharic, Tigrinya, and Geʽez, representing a specific syllabic unit with the consonant sound "x" (a voiceless velar fricative) and the vowel "ee" (which corresponds to the third-order vowel in the Geʽez abugida, pronounced like the 'a' in "late" or the vowel in "hay" in some language contexts). This character belongs to the Unicode Ethiopic block and is primarily employed in liturgical, literary, and modern digital communication for these languages, where it contributes to the accurate representation of their phonology and script traditions.
General Properties
Code Point
U+1284
Name
Ethiopic Syllable Xee
Encodings
HTML Decimal Encoding
ኄ
HTML Hex Encoding
ኄ
UTF-8 Encoding
0xE1 0x8A 0x84
UTF-16 Encoding
0x1284
UTF-32 Encoding
0x00001284
C/C++/Java Escape
\u1284
Unicode Properties
Numeric Value
NaN
Script Extensions
Ethiopic