What ⷙ means
No; modern spelling uses ጙ.
Older Unicode materials label this family “Sebatbeit.” Preserve ⷙ when a source uses that spelling.
How did ⷙ enter Gurage writing?
Ethiopic script links by a debated route to South Arabian writing. South Arabian inscriptions date to the 8th/7th centuries BCE; recognizable Ethiopic appears by the 2nd/3rd centuries CE, with vowel-marked syllables by the 4th century. The script first served Ge’ez, then Amharic, Tigrinya, and Gurage.
Sahle Selassie Berhane Mariam and Wolf Leslau created ⷙ among 44 Ethiopic-derived signs for Chaha Gurage in 1966. The 1977 spelling used it too; a 2013 revision mapped it to ጙ.
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Who writes ⷙ
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Questions people ask
1Why does ⷙ show as a box?
Gurage font support differed by platform through 2024. A box means the font lacks this glyph; the text still contains ⷙ.
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How to type or find ⷙ
- Search it as
- Gurage Gyu · Sebatbeit Gyu · Gurage fidel
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
ⷙ\2DD9Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.