U+2C83 "ⲃ" Coptic Small Letter Vida Unicode Character

U+2C83 "ⲃ" Coptic Small Letter Vida is a letter used in the Coptic alphabet, representing the sound /v/, and is the lowercase form of the uppercase letter U+2C82 (Ⲃ). It is derived from the Greek letter Beta (Β, β), which originally had a /b/ sound, but in Coptic, due to linguistic evolution, it shifted to a voiced labiodental fricative. This character is part of the Coptic block in Unicode, which was added to support the liturgical and scholarly writing of the Coptic language, primarily used by the Coptic Orthodox Church of Egypt. The letter "ⲃ" is historically significant as Coptic preserves the last stage of the ancient Egyptian language, written in a script that combines Greek letters with additional characters borrowed from Demotic.

General Properties

Code Point	U+2C83
Version Added	4.1
Name	Coptic Small Letter Vida
Block	Coptic
General Category	Lowercase 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 0x83
UTF-16 Encoding	0x2C83
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00002C83
C/C++/Java Escape	\u2c83

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	"Ⲃ" U+2C82 Coptic Capital Letter Vida
Simple Titlecase Code Point	"Ⲃ" U+2C82 Coptic Capital Letter Vida
Uppercase Code Point	"Ⲃ" U+2C82 Coptic Capital Letter Vida
Titlecase Code Point	"Ⲃ" U+2C82 Coptic Capital Letter Vida
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