U+2C9A "Ⲛ" Coptic Capital Letter Ni Unicode Character

U+2C9A "Ⲛ" Coptic Capital Letter Ni is a distinctive glyph used in the Coptic alphabet, representing the letter "Ni" which corresponds to the Greek letter Nu (Ν) and generally denotes the "n" sound. It is part of the Coptic script block in Unicode, added to support the liturgical and scholarly transcription of the Coptic language, a descendant of Ancient Egyptian written with a script derived from Greek letters. This character is typically used in contexts such as religious texts, historical manuscripts, and digital typography for Coptic studies, helping preserve the orthography of the language as spoken by the Coptic Christian community in Egypt.

General Properties

Code Point	U+2C9A
Version Added	4.1
Name	Coptic Capital Letter Ni
Block	Coptic
General Category	Uppercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	Ⲛ
HTML Hex Encoding	Ⲛ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE2 0xB2 0x9A
UTF-16 Encoding	0x2C9A
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00002C9A
C/C++/Java Escape	\u2c9a

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	"ⲛ" U+2C9B Coptic Small Letter Ni
Lowercase Code Point	"ⲛ" U+2C9B Coptic Small Letter Ni
Simple Case Folding	"ⲛ" U+2C9B Coptic Small Letter Ni
Case Folding	"ⲛ" U+2C9B Coptic Small Letter Ni
Cased	Yes
Changes When Casefolded	Yes
Changes When Casemapped	Yes
Changes When Lowercased	Yes
Changes When NFKC Casefolded	Yes
NFKC Casefold	"ⲛ" U+2C9B Coptic Small Letter Ni
NFKC Simple Casefold	"ⲛ" U+2C9B Coptic Small Letter Ni
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