U+2D8B "ⶋ" Ethiopic Syllable Zoa Unicode Character
Unicode Version 18.0
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U+2D8B "ⶋ" Ethiopic Syllable Zoa is a glyph from the Ethiopic Extended block, used to represent the syllable "zoa" in the Unicode standard for the Geʽez script. This character is derived from the base consonant for the sound "z" combined with a vowel marker for the /oa/ sound, which is part of certain Ethiopic orthographies for languages like Amharic or Tigrinya. It appears in historical and some modern liturgical texts, along with other extended syllables that capture specific phonetic values beyond the basic set.
General Properties
Code Point
U+2D8B
Name
Ethiopic Syllable Zoa
Encodings
HTML Decimal Encoding
ⶋ
HTML Hex Encoding
ⶋ
UTF-8 Encoding
0xE2 0xB6 0x8B
UTF-16 Encoding
0x2D8B
UTF-32 Encoding
0x00002D8B
C/C++/Java Escape
\u2d8b
Unicode Properties
Numeric Value
NaN
Script Extensions
Ethiopic