What ዖ means
It is the seventh form in ዐ’s series, with “o.” A fidel combines a consonant with a vowel. In Tigrinya romanization, ዖ is ʿo: a throat consonant followed by “o.”
The Ethiopic script grew from a South Arabian consonant script and was adapted for Ge’ez. It appears clearly in inscriptions from the 2nd/3rd centuries CE; its vowel orders developed by the 4th century.
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Who writes ዖ
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Don't confuse it with
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Related characters
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Questions people ask
1Why does ዖ 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 ዖ
- Also called
- ʿo · ʻo · ayin-sadis
- Search it as
- geez · fidel · tigrinya · amharic
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
HTML
ዖCSS
\12D6How to type ዖ
In GeezWord 18.0 for Tigrinya, enter ዕ followed by the Latin key o. Other layouts may differ.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
ዖ
HTML hex
ዖ
CSS content
content: "\12D6";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E1%8B%96
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On screen
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Code points
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JS .length
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UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.