Ethiopic Syllable Yaa

Group: Alphabets

Keywords

writing

About this character

Ethiopic Syllable Yaa belongs to the Alphabets group and is encoded at U+12EB. It was added in Unicode 0.0.

Shortcode

Chat apps such as Slack, Discord and GitHub accept this shortcode instead of the character itself.

Technical codes

Code point: U+12EB
Hex: 12EB
Decimal: 4843
HTML: ያ
CSS: \12EB
JavaScript: \u12EB
Python: \u12EB
UTF-8: E1 8B AB

The same character is drawn differently by each operating system and font.

Hebrew Punctuation Maqaf U+05BE Similar
Hebrew Punctuation Paseq U+05C0 Similar
Hebrew Punctuation Sof Pasuq U+05C3 Similar
Hebrew Punctuation Nun Hafukha U+05C6 Similar
Hebrew Letter Alef U+05D0 Similar
Hebrew Letter Bet U+05D1 Similar
Hebrew Letter Gimel U+05D2 Similar
Hebrew Letter Dalet U+05D3 Similar
Hebrew Letter He U+05D4 Similar
Hebrew Letter Vav U+05D5 Similar
Hebrew Letter Zayin U+05D6 Similar
Hebrew Letter Het U+05D7 Similar
Hebrew Letter Tet U+05D8 Similar
Hebrew Letter Yod U+05D9 Similar
Hebrew Letter Final Kaf U+05DA Similar
Hebrew Letter Kaf U+05DB Similar
Hebrew Letter Lamed U+05DC Similar
Hebrew Letter Final Mem U+05DD Similar
Hebrew Letter Mem U+05DE Similar
Hebrew Letter Final Nun U+05DF Similar
Hebrew Letter Nun U+05E0 Similar
Hebrew Letter Samekh U+05E1 Similar
Hebrew Letter Ayin U+05E2 Similar
Hebrew Letter Final Pe U+05E3 Similar

Questions

Why does this emoji look different on my phone?

Unicode standardises the meaning of a character, not its drawing. Apple, Google, Microsoft and Samsung each ship their own artwork, so the same code point changes shape between devices.

Does copying work everywhere?

The character is copied as plain text, so it pastes into any app that accepts text. If the receiving app has no font for it, you will see an empty box instead.