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ethiopic syllable kyaa

Ethiopic Syllable Kyaa

ⷋ spells a Chaha syllable: a k sound made with the tongue raised toward the roof of the mouth, followed by a. It belongs to the added letters used for Gurage languages.

Text symbol
Search it as
kyaa · kya · Chaha · Gurage · Sebat Bet · Sebatbeit · palatalized k
Shows up in
Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws

What ⷋ means

It is the a-vowel member of Chaha’s palatalized k series. Chaha is a Gurage language; this letter marks a consonant distinction older Ethiopic letters did not represent.

Related palatalized Gurage letters appeared in print in 1966. Ethiopian standard ES-781 formally recognized the Gurage inventory in 2002; the relevant characters entered Unicode in 2005. The early label “Sebatbeit” reflected publication focused on the Gurage variety Sebat Bet; orthographic records describe the added letters as shared across Inor, Mesqan, Sebat Bet, and Sodo. Qya, Xya, and Gya name related palatalized series for different consonants, not alternate spellings of ⷋ.

Don't confuse it with

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ⶀ
Ethiopic Syllable Loa
shares “ethiopic”, “syllable”
ⶁ
Ethiopic Syllable Moa
shares “ethiopic”, “syllable”
ⶂ
Ethiopic Syllable Roa
shares “ethiopic”, “syllable”
ⶃ
Ethiopic Syllable Soa
shares “ethiopic”, “syllable”

Questions people ask

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Why does ⷋ 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.

How to type ⷋ

Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 2DCB, then Alt+X to get ⷋ.
Windows
Win+Rrun charmap for the full table, or use the emoji picker's Ω symbols tab (Win + .).
macOS
Control+Command+SpaceOpen the character viewer and search “ethiopic syllable kyaa”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 2dcb, then Enter or Space.
HTML
ⷋ
CSS
\2DCB
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
ⷋ
HTML hex
ⷋ
CSS content
content: "\2DCB";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E2%B7%8B
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On screen
1
Code points
1
JS .length
3
UTF-8 bytes

A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.

Families this belongs to

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