U+1313 "ጓ" Ethiopic Syllable Gwaa Unicode Character
Unicode Version 18.0
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U+1313 "ጓ" Ethiopic Syllable Gwaa is a glyph within the Geʽez script, historically used to write the ancient Semitic language of Geʽez and still employed today for modern languages such as Amharic and Tigrinya. It represents a specific syllable combining the consonant sound "g" with the vowel "waa," making it distinct from other syllables in the Ethiopic writing system, which is an abugida where each character encodes a consonant-vowel pair. This character is part of the Unicode Ethiopic block, coded to enable precise digital representation and exchange of texts in these languages, preserving the linguistic heritage of the Horn of Africa region.
General Properties
Code Point
U+1313
Name
Ethiopic Syllable Gwaa
Encodings
HTML Decimal Encoding
ጓ
HTML Hex Encoding
ጓ
UTF-8 Encoding
0xE1 0x8C 0x93
UTF-16 Encoding
0x1313
UTF-32 Encoding
0x00001313
C/C++/Java Escape
\u1313
Unicode Properties
Numeric Value
NaN
Script Extensions
Ethiopic