U+12E0 "ዠ" Ethiopic Syllable Zha Unicode Character
Unicode Version 18.0
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U+12E0 "ዠ" Ethiopic Syllable Zha is a glyph from the Ethiopic script used to write the Amharic, Tigrinya, and Ge'ez languages, among others. It represents the syllabic sound "zha," a voiced postalveolar fricative, and is part of the standard set of Ethiopic syllabary characters that derive from the consonantal base for the sound "z" with a specific vowel modification. This character is encoded in the Unicode Standard under the Ethiopic block, enabling its consistent digital representation across different platforms and systems for linguistic and historical texts.
General Properties
Code Point
U+12E0
Name
Ethiopic Syllable Zha
Encodings
HTML Decimal Encoding
ዠ
HTML Hex Encoding
ዠ
UTF-8 Encoding
0xE1 0x8B 0xA0
UTF-16 Encoding
0x12E0
UTF-32 Encoding
0x000012E0
C/C++/Java Escape
\u12e0
Unicode Properties
Numeric Value
NaN
Script Extensions
Ethiopic