U+2C8F "ⲏ" Coptic Small Letter Hate Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+2C8F "ⲏ" Coptic Small Letter Hate is a letter from the Coptic alphabet, representing the aspirated "h" sound, specifically derived from the Greek letter Eta. It is used primarily in the Coptic language, the final stage of ancient Egyptian written in a modified Greek script, and appears in liturgical texts of the Coptic Orthodox Church. The character belongs to the Coptic Unicode block and complements its uppercase form, U+2C8E, helping to preserve the phonetic and historical richness of this ancient language for digital and scholarly use.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2C8F |
| Version Added | 4.1 |
| Name | Coptic Small Letter Hate |
| Block | Coptic |
| General Category | Lowercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ⲏ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ⲏ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0xB2 0x8F |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2C8F |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002C8F |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2c8f |
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 | "Ⲏ" U+2C8E Coptic Capital Letter Hate |
| Simple Titlecase Code Point | "Ⲏ" U+2C8E Coptic Capital Letter Hate |
| Uppercase Code Point | "Ⲏ" U+2C8E Coptic Capital Letter Hate |
| Titlecase Code Point | "Ⲏ" U+2C8E Coptic Capital Letter Hate |
| 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 |