U+03E2 "Ϣ" Coptic Capital Letter Shei Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+03E2 "Ϣ" Coptic Capital Letter Shei is a letter used in the Coptic alphabet, representing the sound /ʃ/ (like the English “sh”). It corresponds to the letter shei, which is derived from the Greek letter chain or from an earlier Coptic innovation, and is typically written as a capital form in the initial position or for proper names in Coptic script. This character is part of the Coptic block in Unicode, which preserves the writing system of the Coptic language used in liturgy and historical texts of the Egyptian Christian church.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+03E2 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Coptic Capital Letter Shei |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Greek Capital Letter Shei |
| Block | Greek and Coptic |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ϣ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ϣ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xCF 0xA2 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x03E2 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000003E2 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u03e2 |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFD Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKD Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Alphabetic |
| Uppercase | Yes |
| Simple Lowercase Code Point | "ϣ" U+03E3 Coptic Small Letter Shei |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ϣ" U+03E3 Coptic Small Letter Shei |
| Simple Case Folding | "ϣ" U+03E3 Coptic Small Letter Shei |
| Case Folding | "ϣ" U+03E3 Coptic Small Letter Shei |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ϣ" U+03E3 Coptic Small Letter Shei |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ϣ" U+03E3 Coptic Small Letter Shei |
| Script | Coptic |
| Script Extensions | Coptic |
| Indic Syllabic Category | Other |
| ID Start | Yes |
| XID Start | Yes |
| ID Continue | Yes |
| XID Continue | Yes |
| Alphabetic | Yes |
| Vertical Orientation | Rotated |
| Grapheme Base | Yes |
| Grapheme Cluster Break | Other |
| Word Break | Alphabetic letter |
| Sentence Break | Upper |