U+123B ETHIOPIC SYLLABLE SHAA

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Decimal / Nº
4667
General Category
Script
Bidi Category
Left-To-Right
East Asian Width
no designated width
Combining Class
Not Reordered
Decomposition
not a composition

Character Details

The Unicode character U+123B, officially named ETHIOPIC SYLLABLE SHAA, was introduced in Unicode version 3.0. It is part of the Ethiopic block, which belongs to the Basic Multilingual plane.

Categorized technically as a Other Letter, this character typically falls under the Ethi script. In terms of text layout and rendering, the glyph is not a composition and has no designated width in East Asian typography. When placed in bidirectional text, it behaves as an Left-To-Right character. Its visual representation remains not mirrored regardless of the reading direction.

Representations & Encodings

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4667 Copied!
UTF-8 E1 88 BB Copied!
UTF-16 12 3B Copied!
UTF-32 00 00 12 3B Copied!
URL-Quoted %E1%88%BB Copied!
HTML hex reference ሻ Copied!
RFC 5137 \u'123B' Copied!
Bash and Zsh (inside echo -e) \u123B Copied!
C and C++ \u123b Copied!
C# \u123b Copied!
CSS \00123B Copied!
Excel =UNICHAR(4667) Copied!
Go \u123b Copied!
JavaScript \u123B Copied!
Modern JavaScript (since ES6) \u{123b} Copied!
JSON \u123B Copied!
Java \u123B Copied!
Lua \u{123B} Copied!
Matlab char(4667) Copied!
Perl \x{123B} Copied!
PHP \u{123b} Copied!
PostgreSQL U&'\123B' Copied!
PowerShell `u{123B} Copied!
Python \u123b Copied!
Ruby \u{123b} Copied!
Rust \u{123b} Copied!