U+2C9E "Ⲟ" Coptic Capital Letter O Unicode Character

U+2C9E "Ⲟ" Coptic Capital Letter O is a glyph from the Coptic script, an alphabet derived from the Greek uncial script with additional letters borrowed from Demotic Egyptian to represent sounds not found in Greek. This particular capital letter represents the vowel sound /o/, similar to the Greek omicron or the Latin O, and is used in liturgical and scholarly texts for writing the Coptic language, the final stage of the ancient Egyptian language. It appears in the Unicode block specifically dedicated to Coptic, encoded separately from its Greek counterparts to preserve the distinct typographic and historical identity of the Coptic alphabet.

General Properties

Code Point	U+2C9E
Version Added	4.1
Name	Coptic Capital Letter O
Block	Coptic
General Category	Uppercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	Ⲟ
HTML Hex Encoding	Ⲟ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE2 0xB2 0x9E
UTF-16 Encoding	0x2C9E
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00002C9E
C/C++/Java Escape	\u2c9e

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	"ⲟ" U+2C9F Coptic Small Letter O
Lowercase Code Point	"ⲟ" U+2C9F Coptic Small Letter O
Simple Case Folding	"ⲟ" U+2C9F Coptic Small Letter O
Case Folding	"ⲟ" U+2C9F Coptic Small Letter O
Cased	Yes
Changes When Casefolded	Yes
Changes When Casemapped	Yes
Changes When Lowercased	Yes
Changes When NFKC Casefolded	Yes
NFKC Casefold	"ⲟ" U+2C9F Coptic Small Letter O
NFKC Simple Casefold	"ⲟ" U+2C9F Coptic Small Letter O
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