U+2DA0 "ⶠ" Ethiopic Syllable Ssa Unicode Character
Unicode Version 18.0
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U+2DA0 "ⶠ" Ethiopic Syllable Ssa is a glyph used in the Geʽez script, specifically representing a syllabic sound in languages such as Amharic and Tigrinya. It corresponds to the consonant "Ṣ" combined with the vowel "a," forming the syllable "ssa" and is part of the Ethiopic Extended block of Unicode, which was added to support additional phonetic distinctions in the writing system. This character is typically employed in liturgical and modern contexts where precise transliteration or representation of the ejective or emphatic consonant sound is required in written text.
General Properties
Code Point
U+2DA0
Name
Ethiopic Syllable Ssa
Encodings
HTML Decimal Encoding
ⶠ
HTML Hex Encoding
ⶠ
UTF-8 Encoding
0xE2 0xB6 0xA0
UTF-16 Encoding
0x2DA0
UTF-32 Encoding
0x00002DA0
C/C++/Java Escape
\u2da0
Unicode Properties
Numeric Value
NaN
Script Extensions
Ethiopic