What ሢ means
It marks the spoken syllable “si.”
Ethiopic signs pair a consonant with a vowel; ሢ is the “i” form in the ሠ series.
The earliest surviving inscriptions in Ethiopia and Eritrea, from the 8th/7th centuries BCE, use South Arabian writing, which recorded consonants only. Recognizable Ethiopic inscriptions appear in the 2nd–3rd centuries CE; vowel forms were established by the 4th century CE. First used for Geʽez, an older Ethiopian language, Ethiopic was later adapted for Amharic, Tigrinya, and Tigre.
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Who writes ሢ
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Don't confuse it with
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Related characters
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Questions people ask
1Why is ሢ a square?
The app’s font may lack Ethiopic coverage; this text character needs a supporting font.
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How to type or find ሢ
- Search it as
- szi · si · ssi · Amharic keyboard
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
HTML
ሢCSS
\1222Keyman GFF Amharic
In version 1.9.1, type
ssi for ሢ; si gives ሲ.Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
ሢ
HTML hex
ሢ
CSS content
content: "\1222";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E1%88%A2
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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.