U+1300 "ጀ" Ethiopic Syllable Ja Unicode Character
Unicode Version 18.0
Source: Browser Default
U+1300 "ጀ" Ethiopic Syllable Ja is a glyph from the Geʽez script, used historically for liturgical and classical Ethiopic languages and today for modern languages like Amharic and Tigrinya. This character represents the syllable "ja," formed by combining the consonant sound "j" with the vowel "a," and it belongs to the first-order vowel series in the script. As part of the Ethiopic block in Unicode, it enables accurate digital representation of texts in the Horn of Africa, preserving the linguistic heritage of regions such as Ethiopia and Eritrea.
General Properties
Code Point
U+1300
Name
Ethiopic Syllable Ja
Encodings
HTML Decimal Encoding
ጀ
HTML Hex Encoding
ጀ
UTF-8 Encoding
0xE1 0x8C 0x80
UTF-16 Encoding
0x1300
UTF-32 Encoding
0x00001300
C/C++/Java Escape
\u1300
Unicode Properties
Numeric Value
NaN
Script Extensions
Ethiopic