What ⶊ means
ⶊ spells a Me’en syllable named “glottal oa.” “Glottal” means a brief closure in the throat. Read the character within its word; alone, it does not identify the full word. A font without glyph coverage may show a missing-glyph box.
Ethiopic writing is historically linked to South Arabian scripts and first served Ge’ez, an ancient regional language. Vowel marks added to consonant signs made the system quasi-syllabic by the 3rd–4th centuries CE; a clearly formed Ethiopic script appears in inscriptions from the 2nd–3rd-century CE. Later extensions served more languages. The 2004 proposal for this extension followed Ethiopia’s 2002 national standard and cited Me’en publications from 1999–2002.
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Who writes ⶊ
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Questions people ask
1Why does ⶊ show as a box on some devices?
Because that device's fonts have no glyph for it. The character is still correct and still copies correctly — the box is a missing glyph, not a broken character.
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How to type or find ⶊ
- Search it as
- U+2D8A · 2D8A · glottal oa · Me’en · Ethiopic Extended · fidel · Ge’ez
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
ⶊ\2D8ACodes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.