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U+1237 CHARACTER

ETHIOPIC SYLLABLE SWA

Quick Facts

Unicode Name ETHIOPIC SYLLABLE SWA
Code Point U+1237
Decimal Value 4663
General Category Other Letter (Lo) →
Unicode Block Ethiopic →
Script Ethiopic →
Unicode Version Unicode 3.0 →
Unicode Plane Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP)

Byte Encodings

UTF-8 3 bytes E1 88 B7
UTF-16 Code Unit 1237
UTF-32 4 bytes 00001237
UTF-16BE / LE Byte Order
BE: 12 37 LE: 37 12
UTF-32BE / LE Byte Order
BE: 00 00 12 37 LE: 37 12 00 00

Developer Code Escapes

HTML Decimal ሷ
HTML Hexadecimal ሷ
HTML Named Entity None
CSS Escape \001237
JavaScript (ES6) \u1237
JavaScript (UTF-16) \u1237
JSON Escape \u1237
Python \u1237
PHP "\u{1237}"
Java "\u1237"
C / C++ "\u1237"
Rust '\u{1237}'
URL Percent-Encoded %E1%88%B7

Normalization & Decomposition

Combining Class 0Not Reordered (Spacing)
Decomposition None (Canonical / Precomposed Base)
NFC / NFD Forms Stable under all Unicode normalization forms (NFC, NFD, NFKC, NFKD).

Bidirectional Properties

Bidi Class LLeft-to-Right
Bidi Mirrored No

Font Specimen & Rendering

Visual rendering of U+1237 across standard system font stacks. Rendering fidelity depends on installed OS font glyph coverage.

Sans-Serif System UI, Inter, Arial
Context: A ሷ Z 123
Serif Georgia, Times, Cambria
Context: A ሷ Z 123
Monospace Consolas, SF Mono, Courier
Context: A ሷ Z 123
System Default Operating System Glyph Fallback
Context: A ሷ Z 123

Names & Aliases

Official Name ETHIOPIC SYLLABLE SWA

The normative, immutable character identifier in the Unicode Character Database.

Identifier U+1237

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