U+2C9B "ⲛ" Coptic Small Letter Ni Unicode Character

U+2C9B "ⲛ" Coptic Small Letter Ni is a letter from the Coptic script, which was used to write the Egyptian language, particularly in Christian liturgical texts after the decline of ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs and Demotic. This character represents the voiced alveolar nasal sound, similar to the letter "n" in English, and it is the lowercase form of the capital Coptic Ni (U+2C9A). As part of the Coptic block in Unicode, it is distinct from the similar-looking Greek letter Nu, reflecting the unique history and shape of the Coptic alphabet, which was derived from Greek but included additional letters for Egyptian sounds no longer present in Greek.

General Properties

Code Point	U+2C9B
Version Added	4.1
Name	Coptic Small Letter Ni
Block	Coptic
General Category	Lowercase 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 0x9B
UTF-16 Encoding	0x2C9B
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00002C9B
C/C++/Java Escape	\u2c9b

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	"Ⲛ" U+2C9A Coptic Capital Letter Ni
Simple Titlecase Code Point	"Ⲛ" U+2C9A Coptic Capital Letter Ni
Uppercase Code Point	"Ⲛ" U+2C9A Coptic Capital Letter Ni
Titlecase Code Point	"Ⲛ" U+2C9A Coptic Capital Letter Ni
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