U+2C8B "ⲋ" Coptic Small Letter Sou Unicode Character

U+2C8B "ⲋ" Coptic Small Letter Sou is a glyph representing a letter from the Coptic alphabet, where it corresponds to the sound /s/ and originates as a variant of the Greek letter sigma used in the Coptic script for writing the Egyptian language. This character is part of the Coptic block in Unicode and is specifically the lowercase form, with its uppercase counterpart being U+2C8A. Its use is primarily historical and liturgical, appearing in ancient Coptic manuscripts and modern scholarly editions of Coptic texts, and it is distinct from the standard Greek sigma due to its unique shape and role within the Coptic writing system.

General Properties

Code Point	U+2C8B
Version Added	4.1
Name	Coptic Small Letter Sou
Block	Coptic
General Category	Lowercase 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 0x8B
UTF-16 Encoding	0x2C8B
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00002C8B
C/C++/Java Escape	\u2c8b

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	"Ⲋ" U+2C8A Coptic Capital Letter Sou
Simple Titlecase Code Point	"Ⲋ" U+2C8A Coptic Capital Letter Sou
Uppercase Code Point	"Ⲋ" U+2C8A Coptic Capital Letter Sou
Titlecase Code Point	"Ⲋ" U+2C8A Coptic Capital Letter Sou
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