U+1326 "ጦ" Ethiopic Syllable Tho Unicode Character

U+1326 "ጦ" Ethiopic Syllable Tho is a symbol from the Geʽez script, used historically for liturgical and modern writing in languages such as Amharic and Tigrinya. It represents the syllable sound "tho," which is articulated with a voiceless dental or alveolar ejective, a distinctive phonetic feature of these Afroasiatic languages. The character is part of the Ethiopic block in Unicode, which was added to support the digital representation of a writing system that dates back over two millennia and remains integral to the cultural and religious identity of the Horn of Africa region.