U+2C82 "Ⲃ" Coptic Capital Letter Vida Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+2C82 "Ⲃ" Coptic Capital Letter Vida is a character in the Coptic script representing the letter "vida," which corresponds to the sound /v/ and is based on the Demotic Egyptian script. It is used primarily in writing the Coptic language, the final stage of the ancient Egyptian language, and appears in biblical, liturgical, and scholarly texts. This uppercase form is part of the Coptic block in Unicode, introduced to support the accurate digital representation of historical and religious documents. Its inclusion helps preserve the linguistic heritage of Coptic Christianity and facilitates modern typographic and research work.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2C82 |
| Version Added | 4.1 |
| Name | Coptic Capital Letter Vida |
| Block | Coptic |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ⲃ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ⲃ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0xB2 0x82 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2C82 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002C82 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2c82 |
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 | "ⲃ" U+2C83 Coptic Small Letter Vida |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ⲃ" U+2C83 Coptic Small Letter Vida |
| Simple Case Folding | "ⲃ" U+2C83 Coptic Small Letter Vida |
| Case Folding | "ⲃ" U+2C83 Coptic Small Letter Vida |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ⲃ" U+2C83 Coptic Small Letter Vida |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ⲃ" U+2C83 Coptic Small Letter Vida |
| 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 |