U+1366 ETHIOPIC PREFACE COLON

The Unicode character U+1366, officially named ETHIOPIC PREFACE COLON, 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 Punctuation, 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.