U+2C88 "Ⲉ" Coptic Capital Letter Eie Unicode Character

U+2C88 "Ⲉ" Coptic Capital Letter Eie is a glyph from the Coptic script, representing a vowel sound used in the Coptic language, the final stage of ancient Egyptian written in a modified Greek alphabet with added Demotic-derived letters. Its shape resembles a Latin capital letter H with a crossbar, but it functions as the uppercase form of the letter eie, pronounced as a long "e" or "i" in Coptic liturgical and scholarly contexts. This character is part of the Coptic Unicode block, enabling digital representation of historical and religious texts from early Christian Egypt, aiding preservation of Coptic literature and identity.

General Properties

Code Point	U+2C88
Version Added	4.1
Name	Coptic Capital Letter Eie
Block	Coptic
General Category	Uppercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	Ⲉ
HTML Hex Encoding	Ⲉ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE2 0xB2 0x88
UTF-16 Encoding	0x2C88
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00002C88
C/C++/Java Escape	\u2c88

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	"ⲉ" U+2C89 Coptic Small Letter Eie
Lowercase Code Point	"ⲉ" U+2C89 Coptic Small Letter Eie
Simple Case Folding	"ⲉ" U+2C89 Coptic Small Letter Eie
Case Folding	"ⲉ" U+2C89 Coptic Small Letter Eie
Cased	Yes
Changes When Casefolded	Yes
Changes When Casemapped	Yes
Changes When Lowercased	Yes
Changes When NFKC Casefolded	Yes
NFKC Casefold	"ⲉ" U+2C89 Coptic Small Letter Eie
NFKC Simple Casefold	"ⲉ" U+2C89 Coptic Small Letter Eie
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