U+03ED "ϭ" Coptic Small Letter Shima Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+03ED "ϭ" Coptic Small Letter Shima is a glyph used in the Coptic alphabet, primarily for writing the Coptic language, the final stage of ancient Egyptian. It represents a specific consonantal sound, often transliterated as "sh" or "š", and its shape is derived from the Demotic script. This character is part of the Coptic script block in Unicode, which was included to support liturgical and scholarly texts, allowing for the accurate digital representation of Coptic manuscripts and religious literature.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+03ED |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Coptic Small Letter Shima |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Greek Small Letter Shima |
| Block | Greek and Coptic |
| General Category | Lowercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ϭ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ϭ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xCF 0xAD |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x03ED |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000003ED |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u03ed |
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 | "Ϭ" U+03EC Coptic Capital Letter Shima |
| Simple Titlecase Code Point | "Ϭ" U+03EC Coptic Capital Letter Shima |
| Uppercase Code Point | "Ϭ" U+03EC Coptic Capital Letter Shima |
| Titlecase Code Point | "Ϭ" U+03EC Coptic Capital Letter Shima |
| 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 |