Ethiopic Syllable Cco

ⶮ is a syllable sign in Ethiopic writing for Sebatbeit (Chaha); CCO labels the o-vowel form in the C-series. It represents a syllable, not a word by itself. As of 2026, a square box in its place usually means the font lacks support for this character.

Text symbol

What ⶮ means

It is a syllable sign used to write Sebatbeit (Chaha).

In Ethiopic writing, a series groups syllable signs that share a consonant but use different vowel forms. “CCO” labels the o-vowel form in Sebatbeit’s C-series.

Ethiopic writing was extended through proposals in 1998, 2002, and 2004 to include syllables for living languages, among them Sebatbeit. By 2021, Unicode proposals described broader Gurage orthographies that reused some characters named for Sebatbeit.

Part of the collection

ሀ

Ge'ez Alphabet (Ethiopic Fidel)

Who writes ⶮ

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Don't confuse it with

ⶨ

Ethiopic Syllable Cca

ⶨ is CCA, the a-vowel form in the same series; ⶮ is CCO, its o-vowel form. The vowel forms differ, so the characters are not interchangeable.

Questions people ask

Why does ⶮ show as a box on some devices?

Not every system ships a font for the Ethiopic Extended block. Where none is installed, the character shows as an empty box; adding a font such as Noto fixes it. The character itself is still correct and copies correctly.