U+03EA "Ϫ" Coptic Capital Letter Gangia Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+03EA "Ϫ" Coptic Capital Letter Gangia is a letter from the Coptic alphabet, which was used to write the Egyptian language in the early Christian era, derived from the Greek alphabet with additional signs for native sounds. Specifically, the Gangia represents a velar or palatal fricative, often transliterated as "g" or "ng," and it appears in certain Coptic dialects to denote a sound not found in Greek. As a capital letter, it typically corresponds to its lowercase version (U+03EB "ϫ"), and its inclusion in Unicode ensures proper digital representation of Coptic texts, which are important for liturgical, historical, and linguistic studies.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+03EA |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Coptic Capital Letter Gangia |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Greek Capital Letter Gangia |
| Block | Greek and Coptic |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ϫ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ϫ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xCF 0xAA |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x03EA |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000003EA |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u03ea |
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 | "ϫ" U+03EB Coptic Small Letter Gangia |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ϫ" U+03EB Coptic Small Letter Gangia |
| Simple Case Folding | "ϫ" U+03EB Coptic Small Letter Gangia |
| Case Folding | "ϫ" U+03EB Coptic Small Letter Gangia |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ϫ" U+03EB Coptic Small Letter Gangia |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ϫ" U+03EB Coptic Small Letter Gangia |
| 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 |