U+12DC "ዜ" Ethiopic Syllable Zee Unicode Character
Unicode Version 18.0
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U+12DC "ዜ" Ethiopic Syllable Zee is a glyph representing the syllable "zee" in the Geʽez script, which is used to write several languages of the Horn of Africa, including Amharic and Tigrinya. It belongs to the Ethiopic block of the Unicode standard and is part of a larger syllabary system where characters represent consonant vowel combinations. This specific character corresponds to the consonant "z" combined with the vowel "e", and its distinctive shape visually differentiates it from other similar syllables in the script.
General Properties
Code Point
U+12DC
Name
Ethiopic Syllable Zee
Encodings
HTML Decimal Encoding
ዜ
HTML Hex Encoding
ዜ
UTF-8 Encoding
0xE1 0x8B 0x9C
UTF-16 Encoding
0x12DC
UTF-32 Encoding
0x000012DC
C/C++/Java Escape
\u12dc
Unicode Properties
Numeric Value
NaN
Script Extensions
Ethiopic