U+2C96 "Ⲗ" Coptic Capital Letter Laula Unicode Character

U+2C96 "Ⲗ" Coptic Capital Letter Laula is a grapheme from the Coptic script, representing the letter "L" in the Coptic alphabet, which was used to write the Egyptian language in the early Christian era. This character is derived from the Greek letter lambda (Λ) but with a distinctive looped shape, reflecting the adaptation of the Greek alphabet to Coptic orthography. It is classified as a capital letter and is encoded in the Coptic block of Unicode, serving to preserve the textual heritage of Coptic liturgical and literary manuscripts.

General Properties

Code Point	U+2C96
Version Added	4.1
Name	Coptic Capital Letter Laula
Block	Coptic
General Category	Uppercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	Ⲗ
HTML Hex Encoding	Ⲗ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE2 0xB2 0x96
UTF-16 Encoding	0x2C96
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00002C96
C/C++/Java Escape	\u2c96

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	"ⲗ" U+2C97 Coptic Small Letter Laula
Lowercase Code Point	"ⲗ" U+2C97 Coptic Small Letter Laula
Simple Case Folding	"ⲗ" U+2C97 Coptic Small Letter Laula
Case Folding	"ⲗ" U+2C97 Coptic Small Letter Laula
Cased	Yes
Changes When Casefolded	Yes
Changes When Casemapped	Yes
Changes When Lowercased	Yes
Changes When NFKC Casefolded	Yes
NFKC Casefold	"ⲗ" U+2C97 Coptic Small Letter Laula
NFKC Simple Casefold	"ⲗ" U+2C97 Coptic Small Letter Laula
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