What ጢ means
It is the i-vowel form in the ጠ consonant family.
Derived from South Arabian consonant writing, Ethiopic first wrote Ge’ez, Ethiopia’s classical language. South Arabian-script inscriptions in Ethiopia and Eritrea date to the 8th/7th centuries BCE. Ethiopic consonant writing appears in the 1st–3rd centuries CE; vowel forms followed in the 4th century CE. Amharic adopted the script in the 13th or 14th century CE; Tigrinya and Tigre also use it.
Don't confuse it with
4Questions people ask
1Why does ጢ 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 ጢ
Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 1322, then Alt+X to get ጢ.
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 thi”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 1322, then Enter or Space.
HTML
ጢCSS
\1322Ethiopic keyboard
With a Latin keyboard, use an Ethiopic input method; choose ጠ, then its i-vowel (third-order) form.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
ጢ
HTML hex
ጢ
CSS content
content: "\1322";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E1%8C%A2
1
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.