U+2C9C "Ⲝ" Coptic Capital Letter Ksi Unicode Character

U+2C9C "Ⲝ" Coptic Capital Letter Ksi is a glyph used in the Coptic alphabet to represent the sound /ks/, corresponding to the Greek letter Xi. It forms part of the Coptic block of Unicode, which was added to support the liturgical and scholarly needs of the Coptic language, a descendant of ancient Egyptian written in a script adapted from the Greek alphabet. This capital letter is primarily used in titles or the beginning of sentences within Coptic texts, and it is visually distinct from its lowercase counterpart, U+2C9D "ⲝ".

General Properties

Code Point	U+2C9C
Version Added	4.1
Name	Coptic Capital Letter Ksi
Block	Coptic
General Category	Uppercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	Ⲝ
HTML Hex Encoding	Ⲝ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE2 0xB2 0x9C
UTF-16 Encoding	0x2C9C
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00002C9C
C/C++/Java Escape	\u2c9c

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	"ⲝ" U+2C9D Coptic Small Letter Ksi
Lowercase Code Point	"ⲝ" U+2C9D Coptic Small Letter Ksi
Simple Case Folding	"ⲝ" U+2C9D Coptic Small Letter Ksi
Case Folding	"ⲝ" U+2C9D Coptic Small Letter Ksi
Cased	Yes
Changes When Casefolded	Yes
Changes When Casemapped	Yes
Changes When Lowercased	Yes
Changes When NFKC Casefolded	Yes
NFKC Casefold	"ⲝ" U+2C9D Coptic Small Letter Ksi
NFKC Simple Casefold	"ⲝ" U+2C9D Coptic Small Letter Ksi
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