U+2C93 "ⲓ" Coptic Small Letter Iauda Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+2C93 "ⲓ" Coptic Small Letter Iauda is a glyph used in the Coptic alphabet, representing the letter Iauda, which corresponds to the tenth letter of the script and typically denotes a short or long /i/ vowel sound. This character is part of the Coptic Unicode block, included to support the liturgical and scholarly representation of the Coptic language, a descendant of Ancient Egyptian written in the Greek-derived Coptic alphabet. Visually, it resembles the Greek letter iota with a specific Coptic stylistic variation, and it is primarily used in religious texts, historical manuscripts, and modern linguistic studies of Coptic Christianity.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2C93 |
| Version Added | 4.1 |
| Name | Coptic Small Letter Iauda |
| Block | Coptic |
| General Category | Lowercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ⲓ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ⲓ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0xB2 0x93 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2C93 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002C93 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2c93 |
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 | "Ⲓ" U+2C92 Coptic Capital Letter Iauda |
| Simple Titlecase Code Point | "Ⲓ" U+2C92 Coptic Capital Letter Iauda |
| Uppercase Code Point | "Ⲓ" U+2C92 Coptic Capital Letter Iauda |
| Titlecase Code Point | "Ⲓ" U+2C92 Coptic Capital Letter Iauda |
| 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 |