What ዑ means
It marks u in the ዐ series. Its Latin-letter form is ʻu.
Ethiopic grew from Old South Arabian script in the Horn of Africa near the end of the first millennium BCE; inscriptions date to the second or third centuries CE. By the fourth century, vowel forms existed for Ge’ez, a language mainly preserved in religious manuscripts. It spread to Tigre and Oromo.
In Ge’ez, ዐ is a pharyngeal consonant, made deep in the throat. As of 2026, Amharic can use this series as vowel carriers.
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Who writes ዑ
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Don't confuse it with
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Related characters
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Questions people ask
1Why does ዑ look different in another font?
Fonts vary; missing Ethiopic support gives a box.
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Collections with ዑ
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How to type or find ዑ
- Search it as
- ʻu · geez · amharic
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
HTML
ዑCSS
\12D1Ethiopic keyboard
Select the ዐ-series u form; layouts vary. Unicode 16.0.0 leaves keystrokes unspecified.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
ዑ
HTML hex
ዑ
CSS content
content: "\12D1";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E1%8B%91
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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.