What ⶱ means
Bench is a language spoken in Ethiopia. The 1998 encoding proposal places ⶱ in its retroflex ZZ series: syllables whose consonants are made with the tongue tip curled back.
The proposal says the series had been proposed by 1981, appeared in publications for at least a decade by 1998, and entered school systems in 1994.
Earlier Bench New Testament material used Ethiopic-script spelling; a Latin-based orthography was adopted in 2008. The 1998 proposal shows typewriter forms and says handwritten versions preferred a small v-shaped mark above the base glyph.
A Bench syllable written in Ethiopic script, not a chat reaction.
The name “zzu” is not a language-neutral pronunciation guide.
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Who writes ⶱ
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Don't confuse it with
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Questions people ask
1Why does ⶱ show as a box?
The font likely lacks this glyph. ⶱ is Ethiopic text, so its display depends on font coverage; a font that supports Ethiopic Extended can render it.
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How to type or find ⶱ
- Also called
- zzu
- Search it as
- bench · benchnon · ethiopic zzu · retroflex z · fidel
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
ⶱ\2DB1Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.