What ጠ means
A fidel pairs a consonant with its vowel.
Here ä is the default vowel; the Unicode label “tha” is a name, not a pronunciation guide.
Pseudo-Sabaean, a South Arabian-derived script, appears in Ethiopia and Eritrea in the 8th/7th centuries BCE. A Ge'ez abjad (consonant-only writing) appears in the 1st–3rd centuries CE. In the 4th century, vowel marks made it an abugida, where signs encode consonant-vowel syllables.
Don't confuse it with
1Questions people ask
1Why does ጠ show as a square?
A font without Ethiopic coverage cannot draw it; switch to one that includes the script.
How to type ጠ
Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 1320, then Alt+X to get ጠ.
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 tha”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 1320, then Enter or Space.
HTML
ጠCSS
\1320How to type ጠ in Amharic
Keyman’s GFF Amharic layout maps capital T to ጠ.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
ጠ
HTML hex
ጠ
CSS content
content: "\1320";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E1%8C%A0
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On screen
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Code points
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JS .length
3
UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.