ETHIOPIC SYLLABLE ZA character

ETHIOPIC SYLLABLE ZA
U+12D8
4824
ዘ
ዘ
Lo (Letter, Other)
L (Left-to-Right)
N
0
Ethiopic
0
BMP
Basic Multilingual Plane
0000-FFFF
ዘ












ETHIOPIC SYLLABLE ZA is other letters, including syllables and ideographs from the Basic Multilingual Plane.

The bidi class of ETHIOPIC SYLLABLE ZA is Left-to-Right (Strong). It belongs to the strong left-to-right characters..

The Left-to-Right (L) bidi class is assigned to characters that are written from left to right. This includes most alphabetic characters from Latin, Greek, Cyrillic, and other scripts that are typically written in this direction. The presence of L characters in a text influences the overall text directionality in bidirectional contexts.

Other Letter (Lo) refers to letters that do not fit into the uppercase, lowercase, titlecase, or modifier letter categories. These include letters from scripts that do not have case distinction, such as Arabic, Hebrew, Chinese, and others. This category is also used for syllabic and ideographic characters that function as letters.

This character belongs to the Ethiopic block. The Ethiopic block contains characters used in the Ge'ez script, which is used for writing several languages in Ethiopia and Eritrea, including Amharic, Tigrinya, and Ge'ez. The script is an abugida, where each consonant is combined with a vowel to form a syllable. This block includes characters for all the basic syllables, as well as additional marks and numerals. The Ge'ez script has a long history, dating back to at least the 4th century AD, and is still used in religious and liturgical contexts by the Ethiopian Orthodox Church, as well as in modern language use..