U+1397 ETHIOPIC TONAL MARK HIDET

The Unicode character U+1397, officially named ETHIOPIC TONAL MARK HIDET, was introduced in Unicode version 4.1. It is part of the Ethiopic Sup block, which belongs to the Basic Multilingual plane.

Categorized technically as a Other Symbol, 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 Other Neutral character. Its visual representation remains not mirrored regardless of the reading direction.