U+12E7 "ዧ" Ethiopic Syllable Zhwa Unicode Character
Unicode Version 18.0
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U+12E7 "ዧ" Ethiopic Syllable Zhwa is a glyph in the Ethiopic script used historically for writing the Ge'ez language and still employed for modern languages like Amharic and Tigrinya. It represents the syllable sound "zhwa," which is a voiced retroflex fricative combined with the vowel 'a,' and it belongs to a class of labiovelar or specialized consonant variants in the writing system. This character is part of the rich syllabary invented for the Ethiopic abugida, where each symbol denotes a consonant plus a specific vowel, and it is encoded in the Unicode block from U+1200 to U+137F for digital text representation.
General Properties
Code Point
U+12E7
Name
Ethiopic Syllable Zhwa
Encodings
HTML Decimal Encoding
ዧ
HTML Hex Encoding
ዧ
UTF-8 Encoding
0xE1 0x8B 0xA7
UTF-16 Encoding
0x12E7
UTF-32 Encoding
0x000012E7
C/C++/Java Escape
\u12e7
Unicode Properties
Numeric Value
NaN
Script Extensions
Ethiopic