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ⷆ

ethiopic syllable qyo

Ethiopic syllable Qyo

ⷆ is the legacy Gurage qyo spelling for the o-vowel syllable. Modern spelling uses ቖ for the same syllable slot.

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qyo · Gurage qyo · Sebat Bet · Sebatbeit · Chaha · qyo ቖ
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What ⷆ means

It writes the o-vowel member of Gurage’s palatalized-q series.

“Palatalized” means the consonant is made with the tongue raised toward the palate; q labels this sound series. Its earliest documented print use is a 1966 spelling system for Chaha, a Gurage language. The system added Ethiopic signs for sounds missing from the established inventory. Ethiopic writing developed from South Arabian script and gained vowel notation around the fourth century CE.

In 2013, a Gurage revision moved the series into the ቐ family. ⷆ stayed as its legacy o-form; modern spelling uses ቖ.

Don't confuse it with

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ቖ
Ethiopic Syllable Qho
Modern Gurage spelling uses ቖ for the same o-vowel syllable; ⷆ is the legacy form.

Questions people ask

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Why does ⷆ 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 ⷆ

Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 2DC6, then Alt+X to get ⷆ.
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 qyo”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 2dc6, then Enter or Space.
HTML
ⷆ
CSS
\2DC6
Legacy Gurage input
As of 2026, select a legacy Gurage keyboard and a font supporting Ethiopic/Sebat Bet variants; generic Amharic input may not expose ⷆ.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
ⷆ
HTML hex
ⷆ
CSS content
content: "\2DC6";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E2%B7%86
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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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