U+2C8C "Ⲍ" Coptic Capital Letter Zata Unicode Character

U+2C8C "Ⲍ" Coptic Capital Letter Zata is a glyph used in the Coptic alphabet, representing the letter Zata, which corresponds to the Greek letter Zeta and is typically transliterated as "z" in modern contexts. This character is part of the Unicode block designated for Coptic script, which preserves the writing system of the Coptic language, the final stage of the ancient Egyptian language written primarily with Greek letters and a few additional characters derived from Demotic. In Coptic manuscripts and liturgical texts, the capital Zata appears at the beginning of words or in titles, and it holds phonetic value as a voiced alveolar fricative, similar to the English "z" sound.

General Properties

Code Point	U+2C8C
Version Added	4.1
Name	Coptic Capital Letter Zata
Block	Coptic
General Category	Uppercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	Ⲍ
HTML Hex Encoding	Ⲍ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE2 0xB2 0x8C
UTF-16 Encoding	0x2C8C
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00002C8C
C/C++/Java Escape	\u2c8c

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	"ⲍ" U+2C8D Coptic Small Letter Zata
Lowercase Code Point	"ⲍ" U+2C8D Coptic Small Letter Zata
Simple Case Folding	"ⲍ" U+2C8D Coptic Small Letter Zata
Case Folding	"ⲍ" U+2C8D Coptic Small Letter Zata
Cased	Yes
Changes When Casefolded	Yes
Changes When Casemapped	Yes
Changes When Lowercased	Yes
Changes When NFKC Casefolded	Yes
NFKC Casefold	"ⲍ" U+2C8D Coptic Small Letter Zata
NFKC Simple Casefold	"ⲍ" U+2C8D Coptic Small Letter Zata
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