U+2C90 "Ⲑ" Coptic Capital Letter Thethe Unicode Character

U+2C90 "Ⲑ" Coptic Capital Letter Thethe is a glyph used in the Coptic alphabet to represent the sound /tʰ/ or /θ/, similar to the English "th" in "think." This letter corresponds to the Greek letter theta (Θ) in its origin, adopted into Coptic to write the final stage of the ancient Egyptian language. It appears in ecclesiastical and liturgical texts, particularly within the Coptic Orthodox Church, and is part of the Coptic script block in Unicode, which was added to support the digital representation of this historical writing system.

General Properties

Code Point	U+2C90
Version Added	4.1
Name	Coptic Capital Letter Thethe
Block	Coptic
General Category	Uppercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	Ⲑ
HTML Hex Encoding	Ⲑ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE2 0xB2 0x90
UTF-16 Encoding	0x2C90
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00002C90
C/C++/Java Escape	\u2c90

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	"ⲑ" U+2C91 Coptic Small Letter Thethe
Lowercase Code Point	"ⲑ" U+2C91 Coptic Small Letter Thethe
Simple Case Folding	"ⲑ" U+2C91 Coptic Small Letter Thethe
Case Folding	"ⲑ" U+2C91 Coptic Small Letter Thethe
Cased	Yes
Changes When Casefolded	Yes
Changes When Casemapped	Yes
Changes When Lowercased	Yes
Changes When NFKC Casefolded	Yes
NFKC Casefold	"ⲑ" U+2C91 Coptic Small Letter Thethe
NFKC Simple Casefold	"ⲑ" U+2C91 Coptic Small Letter Thethe
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