U+132A "ጪ" Ethiopic Syllable Chi Unicode Character

U+132A "ጪ" Ethiopic Syllable Chi is a character in the Ge'ez script used to represent the syllable "chi" in several languages of the Horn of Africa, including Amharic and Tigrinya. It is part of the Ethiopic block in the Unicode standard, which encodes the ancient and modern writing system derived from the Ge'ez abugida. In this script, each character typically represents a consonant-vowel combination, with "ጪ" corresponding to the sound of the voiceless palatal affricate followed by the vowel "i". This character is used in religious, literary, and everyday written contexts across Ethiopia and Eritrea, preserving the phonetic tradition of the Ethiopic syllabary.