U+03E9 "ϩ" Coptic Small Letter Hori Unicode Character

U+03E9 "ϩ" Coptic Small Letter Hori is a letter from the Coptic script, which is the alphabet used for writing the Coptic language, the liturgical language of the Egyptian Christian Church. This character represents the sound /h/ or a breathy aspiration, and it is derived from the Demotic Egyptian script, corresponding to the Greek letter eta (Η) in shape but with a distinct phonetic and historical origin. In modern usage, it appears in Coptic liturgical texts and scholarly works for preserving the ancient Egyptian language tradition.

General Properties

Code Point	U+03E9
Version Added	1.1
Name	Coptic Small Letter Hori
Unicode 1.0 Name	Greek Small Letter Hori
Block	Greek and Coptic
General Category	Lowercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ϩ
HTML Hex Encoding	ϩ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xCF 0xA9
UTF-16 Encoding	0x03E9
UTF-32 Encoding	0x000003E9
C/C++/Java Escape	\u03e9

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	"Ϩ" U+03E8 Coptic Capital Letter Hori
Simple Titlecase Code Point	"Ϩ" U+03E8 Coptic Capital Letter Hori
Uppercase Code Point	"Ϩ" U+03E8 Coptic Capital Letter Hori
Titlecase Code Point	"Ϩ" U+03E8 Coptic Capital Letter Hori
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