U+12A7 ETHIOPIC SYLLABLE GLOTTAL WA

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Decimal / Nº
4775
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+12A7, officially named ETHIOPIC SYLLABLE GLOTTAL WA, 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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4775 Copied!
UTF-8 E1 8A A7 Copied!
UTF-16 12 A7 Copied!
UTF-32 00 00 12 A7 Copied!
URL-Quoted %E1%8A%A7 Copied!
HTML hex reference ኧ Copied!
RFC 5137 \u'12A7' Copied!
Bash and Zsh (inside echo -e) \u12A7 Copied!
C and C++ \u12a7 Copied!
C# \u12a7 Copied!
CSS \0012A7 Copied!
Excel =UNICHAR(4775) Copied!
Go \u12a7 Copied!
JavaScript \u12A7 Copied!
Modern JavaScript (since ES6) \u{12a7} Copied!
JSON \u12A7 Copied!
Java \u12A7 Copied!
Lua \u{12A7} Copied!
Matlab char(4775) Copied!
Perl \x{12A7} Copied!
PHP \u{12a7} Copied!
PostgreSQL U&'\12A7' Copied!
PowerShell `u{12A7} Copied!
Python \u12a7 Copied!
Ruby \u{12a7} Copied!
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