Ethiopic Syllable Zoa

ⶋ is an Ethiopic syllable sign assigned to the Me’en extension of the script. That extension adds signs for language orthographies beyond the basic Ethiopic syllabary.

Text symbol

What ⶋ means

It is a syllable sign in the Me’en writing set.

Unicode groups ⶋ under “Syllables for Me’en.” The extension adds characters for orthographies beyond the basic Ethiopic inventory.

Ethiopia’s 2004 proposal derives the extension from national standard ES 781:2002 and names Me’en among the languages it supports.

How old is the Ethiopic script?

The wider Ge’ez script is ancient; ⶋ is a modern addition.

Precursors of Ge’ez appear in pre-Aksumite graffiti in the Horn of Africa. A fully formed writing system whose signs combine consonants and vowels appears in mid-fourth-century Ezana inscriptions.

The script was later adapted for many languages across the Horn of Africa.

Part of the collection

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Ge'ez Alphabet (Ethiopic Fidel)

Who writes ⶋ

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Questions people ask

Why does ⶋ 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.