U+132B "ጫ" Ethiopic Syllable Chaa Unicode Character
Unicode Version 18.0
Source: Browser Default
U+132B "ጫ" Ethiopic Syllable Chaa is a symbol from the Ge'ez script, used primarily for writing the Amharic and Tigrinya languages of Ethiopia and Eritrea. It represents the syllable pronounced as "cha" or "chaa," with a long vowel sound, and is part of the consonant based syllabary system where each character modifies a base consonant with a specific vowel. This character belongs to the Ethiopic block in Unicode, which encodes the traditional script for liturgical and modern languages in the Horn of Africa, and it plays a functional role in everyday writing, literature, and digital communication for millions of speakers.
General Properties
Code Point
U+132B
Name
Ethiopic Syllable Chaa
Encodings
HTML Decimal Encoding
ጫ
HTML Hex Encoding
ጫ
UTF-8 Encoding
0xE1 0x8C 0xAB
UTF-16 Encoding
0x132B
UTF-32 Encoding
0x0000132B
C/C++/Java Escape
\u132b
Unicode Properties
Numeric Value
NaN
Script Extensions
Ethiopic