U+03E5 "ϥ" Coptic Small Letter Fei Unicode Character

U+03E5 "ϥ" Coptic Small Letter Fei is a letter used in the Coptic alphabet, which is derived from the Greek alphabet but adapted to write the Coptic language, the liturgical language of the Coptic Orthodox Church. This character represents the sound /f/ and corresponds to the numeral value of 90 in the Coptic numeric system, originally evolving from the Demotic script. It appears in Coptic manuscripts and inscriptions, and its uppercase form is U+03E4 "Ϥ", making it part of a paired set within the Unicode standard to ensure proper textual representation and rendering for historical and religious studies.

General Properties

Code Point	U+03E5
Version Added	1.1
Name	Coptic Small Letter Fei
Unicode 1.0 Name	Greek Small Letter Fei
Block	Greek and Coptic
General Category	Lowercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ϥ
HTML Hex Encoding	ϥ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xCF 0xA5
UTF-16 Encoding	0x03E5
UTF-32 Encoding	0x000003E5
C/C++/Java Escape	\u03e5

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	"Ϥ" U+03E4 Coptic Capital Letter Fei
Simple Titlecase Code Point	"Ϥ" U+03E4 Coptic Capital Letter Fei
Uppercase Code Point	"Ϥ" U+03E4 Coptic Capital Letter Fei
Titlecase Code Point	"Ϥ" U+03E4 Coptic Capital Letter Fei
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