U+03E8 "Ϩ" Coptic Capital Letter Hori Unicode Character
U+03E8 "Ϩ" Coptic Capital Letter Hori is a glyph used in the Coptic alphabet, where it represents a voiced glottal or pharyngeal fricative sound, typically transliterated as "h" or "ḥ." This letter is historically derived from the Demotic script and corresponds to the Greek letter Heta, though it holds a distinct position in the Coptic writing system. It forms part of the Coptic block in Unicode, which was introduced to support the liturgical and scholarly use of the Coptic language, primarily within the context of the Egyptian Christian tradition. The shape of the capital Hori resembles an angular, open form that differs notably from its minuscule counterpart, and it is occasionally used in modern digital texts for historical or religious documentation.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+03E8 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Coptic Capital Letter Hori |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Greek Capital Letter Hori |
| Block | Greek and Coptic |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ϩ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ϩ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xCF 0xA8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x03E8 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000003E8 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u03e8 |
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 | "ϩ" U+03E9 Coptic Small Letter Hori |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ϩ" U+03E9 Coptic Small Letter Hori |
| Simple Case Folding | "ϩ" U+03E9 Coptic Small Letter Hori |
| Case Folding | "ϩ" U+03E9 Coptic Small Letter Hori |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ϩ" U+03E9 Coptic Small Letter Hori |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ϩ" U+03E9 Coptic Small Letter Hori |
| 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 |