The Ge’ez script, also known as Ethiopic or fidel, is an abugida used across Ethiopia and Eritrea to write Amharic, Tigrinya, and the liturgical Ge’ez language. Unlike an alphabet, each character stands for a whole syllable: a consonant fused with one of seven vowels. This free tool maps Latin consonant-plus-vowel approximations to their matching Ethiopic Unicode characters so you can render names and words in fidel instantly, with no upload.
How it works
Ethiopic characters are laid out in a grid. Every consonant has seven orders corresponding to the vowels ä, u, i, a, e, ə (schwa), and o, in that traditional sequence. In Unicode these seven forms occupy seven consecutive code points, so the tool computes each character by taking the consonant’s base code point and adding the vowel’s order offset (0 through 6).
The tool scans your text for a consonant followed by an optional vowel. A consonant plus a vowel — such as ku — maps to the single character at that intersection (ኩ). A bare consonant with no vowel falls back to the sixth order (the ə / vowel-less form), so b becomes ብ. Unrecognised characters, spaces, and punctuation pass through unchanged.
Example and notes
The consonant b has base form በ (bä). Adding vowels gives the row:
ba(ä)=በ bu=ቡ bi=ቢ baa(a)=ባ be=ቤ b(ə)=ብ bo=ቦSo typing bati yields በ + ti → በቲ. This mapper covers the common consonants and the seven standard vowel orders; it does not encode labialised series, gemination, or Ethiopic numerals. Everything runs locally in your browser — your text is never sent to a server.