U+03EB "ϫ" Coptic Small Letter Gangia Unicode Character

U+03EB "ϫ" Coptic Small Letter Gangia is a glyph used in the Coptic script to represent the sound /dʒ/ or /g/ depending on dialect, and it corresponds to the letter "janja" or "gangia" in the Coptic alphabet. This character is derived from the Demotic script and is employed primarily in the liturgy and textual transmission of the Coptic language, which is the final stage of the ancient Egyptian language used by the Coptic Orthodox Church. As a lowercase form, it is paired with its uppercase version (U+03EA) and is part of the Unicode block for Coptic, encoded for digital representation to preserve and facilitate the study of this historic liturgical and literary tradition.

General Properties

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

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ϫ
HTML Hex Encoding	ϫ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xCF 0xAB
UTF-16 Encoding	0x03EB
UTF-32 Encoding	0x000003EB
C/C++/Java Escape	\u03eb

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	"Ϫ" U+03EA Coptic Capital Letter Gangia
Simple Titlecase Code Point	"Ϫ" U+03EA Coptic Capital Letter Gangia
Uppercase Code Point	"Ϫ" U+03EA Coptic Capital Letter Gangia
Titlecase Code Point	"Ϫ" U+03EA Coptic Capital Letter Gangia
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