U+2C81 "ⲁ" Coptic Small Letter Alfa Unicode Character

U+2C81 "ⲁ" Coptic Small Letter Alfa is a glyph used in the Coptic script, originating from the Greek letter Alpha and representing the sound /a/. It is part of the Coptic Unicode block, which was added to support the liturgical and literary texts of the Coptic language, the final stage of ancient Egyptian written in an alphabet adapted from Greek. This specific character, the lowercase form of its uppercase counterpart U+2C80, appears in manuscripts and modern digital representations of Coptic, distinguishing it from the visually similar Greek Alpha by its distinctive calligraphic shape, often featuring a slight loop or curved stroke at the top.

General Properties

Code Point	U+2C81
Version Added	4.1
Name	Coptic Small Letter Alfa
Block	Coptic
General Category	Lowercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ⲁ
HTML Hex Encoding	ⲁ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE2 0xB2 0x81
UTF-16 Encoding	0x2C81
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00002C81
C/C++/Java Escape	\u2c81

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	"Ⲁ" U+2C80 Coptic Capital Letter Alfa
Simple Titlecase Code Point	"Ⲁ" U+2C80 Coptic Capital Letter Alfa
Uppercase Code Point	"Ⲁ" U+2C80 Coptic Capital Letter Alfa
Titlecase Code Point	"Ⲁ" U+2C80 Coptic Capital Letter Alfa
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