U+130F "ጏ" Ethiopic Syllable Goa Unicode Character
Unicode Version 18.0
Source: Browser Default
U+130F "ጏ" Ethiopic Syllable Goa is a glyph in the Ethiopic script used to represent the syllable "goa" in the Ge’ez language and modern Ethiopic languages like Amharic and Tigrinya. It belongs to the Ethiopic block of Unicode, which encodes the ancient abugida writing system originating from the Aksumite Empire, where each character combines a consonant and a vowel sound. Historically, this syllable is part of a larger set of characters used for liturgical, historical, and administrative texts, and it remains in use today for writing religious manuscripts, educational materials, and digital communication in the Horn of Africa region.
General Properties
Code Point
U+130F
Name
Ethiopic Syllable Goa
Encodings
HTML Decimal Encoding
ጏ
HTML Hex Encoding
ጏ
UTF-8 Encoding
0xE1 0x8C 0x8F
UTF-16 Encoding
0x130F
UTF-32 Encoding
0x0000130F
C/C++/Java Escape
\u130f
Unicode Properties
Numeric Value
NaN
Script Extensions
Ethiopic