Unicode Character "የ" (U+12E8)

The character የ (Ethiopic Syllable Ya) is represented by the Unicode codepoint U+12E8. It is encoded in the Ethiopic block, which belongs to the Basic Multilingual Plane. It was added to Unicode in version 3.0 (September, 1999). It is HTML encoded as የ.

Main Unicode Properties

Name Ethiopic Syllable Ya
Unicode Codepoint U+12E8
Unicode Version 3.0 (September, 1999)
Block Ethiopic
Plane Basic Multilingual Plane

Bidirectional Data

Bidirectional class Left To Right (L)
Is mirrored? No

Other Unicode Data

Category Other Letter
Script Ethiopic
Combining Class Not Reordered

U+12E8 Conversion

HTML (decimal) የ
HTML (hex) የ
HTML (named) -
URL Escape Code %E1%8B%A8
CSS \0012E8
JavaScript, JSON \u12E8
C, C++, Java \u12E8
Python \u12E8
Rust \u{12E8}
Ruby \u12E8

How to type "የ"

  • Windows ?: Hold Alt, then type 1 2 E 8. Release Alt.
  • Mac ?: Hold Alt ⌥, then type 1 2 E 8. Release Alt.

Preview

  • የ
    Times, Times New Roman, serif
  • የ
    Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif
  • የ
    Courier, Courier New, monospace

UTF Encodings

UTF-8 (hex) 0xE1 0x8B 0xA8
UTF-16 (hex) 0x12E8
UTF-32 (hex) 0x000012E8

References