U+2C97 "ⲗ" Coptic Small Letter Laula Unicode Character

U+2C97 "ⲗ" Coptic Small Letter Laula is a letter used primarily in the Coptic alphabet, where it represents the sound equivalent to the Greek letter lambda and the Latin letter L. This character is part of the Coptic script block in Unicode, which was added to support the liturgical and scholarly needs of the Coptic language, an Afro-Asiatic language descended from ancient Egyptian and used in Christian religious contexts. The letter "ⲗ" is often found in historical and religious manuscripts, as well as in modern digital texts that require accurate representation of Coptic writing.

General Properties

Code Point	U+2C97
Version Added	4.1
Name	Coptic Small Letter Laula
Block	Coptic
General Category	Lowercase 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 0x97
UTF-16 Encoding	0x2C97
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00002C97
C/C++/Java Escape	\u2c97

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	"Ⲗ" U+2C96 Coptic Capital Letter Laula
Simple Titlecase Code Point	"Ⲗ" U+2C96 Coptic Capital Letter Laula
Uppercase Code Point	"Ⲗ" U+2C96 Coptic Capital Letter Laula
Titlecase Code Point	"Ⲗ" U+2C96 Coptic Capital Letter Laula
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