U+2C8A "Ⲋ" Coptic Capital Letter Sou Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+2C8A "Ⲋ" Coptic Capital Letter Sou is a glyph used in the Coptic script, representing the uppercase form of the letter "sou," which corresponds to the sound /ʃ/ (like the "sh" in "ship"). This character is part of the Coptic block of Unicode, which was added to support the liturgical and scholarly needs of the Coptic language, the final stage of the ancient Egyptian language written with the Coptic alphabet. The "sou" letter is derived from the Demotic script and is notably distinct from the Greek-derived letters that also appear in the Coptic alphabet, reflecting the language's unique phonetic inventory. Its use is primarily found in religious texts, historical manuscripts, and modern linguistic studies of Coptic.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2C8A |
| Version Added | 4.1 |
| Name | Coptic Capital Letter Sou |
| Block | Coptic |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ⲋ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ⲋ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0xB2 0x8A |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2C8A |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002C8A |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2c8a |
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 | "ⲋ" U+2C8B Coptic Small Letter Sou |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ⲋ" U+2C8B Coptic Small Letter Sou |
| Simple Case Folding | "ⲋ" U+2C8B Coptic Small Letter Sou |
| Case Folding | "ⲋ" U+2C8B Coptic Small Letter Sou |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ⲋ" U+2C8B Coptic Small Letter Sou |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ⲋ" U+2C8B Coptic Small Letter Sou |
| 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 |