What ዤ means
It writes one consonant and vowel as a syllable.
Writing from South Arabia reached the Horn around the 8th century BCE and developed locally into Ethiopic writing. Inscriptions from Aksum, an ancient kingdom there, preserve Ge'ez in South Arabian and early Ethiopic writing without vowel marks.
Around the 4th century CE, vowel marks let one consonant appear with different vowels as a family of syllables. Amharic and related Ethiopic languages use overlapping selections; ዤ pairs the ዠ family's consonant with e.
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Who writes ዤ
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Questions people ask
1Why does ዤ show as a box?
Missing Ethiopic font coverage can replace it with a box; in 2026, an Ethiopic-capable font is the fix.
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How to type or find ዤ
- Search it as
- Amharic ዤ · zhe · zh · Ethiopic syllable · fidel · Ethiopic keyboard
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- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
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ዤCSS
\12E4Keyman GFF
How to type ዤ with the Keyman GFF Amharic keyboard: type Z, then i, then e. It produces ዤ (2026).
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
ዤ
HTML hex
ዤ
CSS content
content: "\12E4";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E1%8B%A4
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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.