U+132F "ጯ" Ethiopic Syllable Chwa Unicode Character
Unicode Version 18.0
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U+132F "ጯ" Ethiopic Syllable Chwa is a symbol from the Geʽez script, primarily used to write liturgical texts for the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church and modern languages like Amharic and Tigrinya. This specific syllable represents the consonant "ch" combined with the vowel "wa," functioning as a distinct phonetic unit within the abugida writing system of Ethiopia and Eritrea. Its visual form, derived from the ancient Sabaean script, belongs to the Ethiopic block of Unicode, ensuring that digital communication and preservation of these languages accurately include this character.
General Properties
Code Point
U+132F
Name
Ethiopic Syllable Chwa
Encodings
HTML Decimal Encoding
ጯ
HTML Hex Encoding
ጯ
UTF-8 Encoding
0xE1 0x8C 0xAF
UTF-16 Encoding
0x132F
UTF-32 Encoding
0x0000132F
C/C++/Java Escape
\u132f
Unicode Properties
Numeric Value
NaN
Script Extensions
Ethiopic