U+03E3 "ϣ" Coptic Small Letter Shei Unicode Character

U+03E3 "ϣ" Coptic Small Letter Shei is a letter from the Coptic alphabet, representing the sound "sh" as in the English word "ship." It is used in the Coptic language, the final stage of the ancient Egyptian language written primarily in the Coptic script, which incorporates Greek letters alongside additional characters like Shei to capture distinctive Egyptian phonemes. This character corresponds to the uppercase form U+03E2 "Ϣ" and is a key element in liturgical and scholarly texts, helping preserve the linguistic heritage of Christian Egypt.

General Properties

Code Point	U+03E3
Version Added	1.1
Name	Coptic Small Letter Shei
Unicode 1.0 Name	Greek Small Letter Shei
Block	Greek and Coptic
General Category	Lowercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ϣ
HTML Hex Encoding	ϣ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xCF 0xA3
UTF-16 Encoding	0x03E3
UTF-32 Encoding	0x000003E3
C/C++/Java Escape	\u03e3

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
Lowercase	Yes
Simple Uppercase Code Point	"Ϣ" U+03E2 Coptic Capital Letter Shei
Simple Titlecase Code Point	"Ϣ" U+03E2 Coptic Capital Letter Shei
Uppercase Code Point	"Ϣ" U+03E2 Coptic Capital Letter Shei
Titlecase Code Point	"Ϣ" U+03E2 Coptic Capital Letter Shei
Cased	Yes
Changes When Casemapped	Yes
Changes When Titlecased	Yes
Changes When Uppercased	Yes
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	Lower