U+2C98 "Ⲙ" Coptic Capital Letter Mi Unicode Character

U+2C98 "Ⲙ" Coptic Capital Letter Mi is a glyph from the Coptic script block, representing the fifteenth letter of the Coptic alphabet, known as "Mi." It is used in the liturgical and historical writing of the Coptic language, the last direct descendant of the Egyptian language, and corresponds to the Greek letter Mu (Μ) in shape and sound, typically denoting the /m/ phoneme. Derived from the Greek alphabet, Coptic letters like Mi were adapted to write both biblical and native Egyptian texts, and this capital form appears at the beginning of words or proper names in Coptic manuscripts and modern scholarly editions.

General Properties

Code Point	U+2C98
Version Added	4.1
Name	Coptic Capital Letter Mi
Block	Coptic
General Category	Uppercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	Ⲙ
HTML Hex Encoding	Ⲙ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE2 0xB2 0x98
UTF-16 Encoding	0x2C98
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00002C98
C/C++/Java Escape	\u2c98

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	"ⲙ" U+2C99 Coptic Small Letter Mi
Lowercase Code Point	"ⲙ" U+2C99 Coptic Small Letter Mi
Simple Case Folding	"ⲙ" U+2C99 Coptic Small Letter Mi
Case Folding	"ⲙ" U+2C99 Coptic Small Letter Mi
Cased	Yes
Changes When Casefolded	Yes
Changes When Casemapped	Yes
Changes When Lowercased	Yes
Changes When NFKC Casefolded	Yes
NFKC Casefold	"ⲙ" U+2C99 Coptic Small Letter Mi
NFKC Simple Casefold	"ⲙ" U+2C99 Coptic Small Letter Mi
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