U+2C9F "ⲟ" Coptic Small Letter O Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+2C9F "ⲟ" Coptic Small Letter O is a glyph used in the Coptic alphabet, where it represents the sound of the letter O, derived from the Greek omicron. This character is part of the Coptic script block in Unicode, which was added to support the liturgical and scholarly writing of the Coptic language, primarily used in the Christian churches of Egypt. Its visual form is a simple, rounded lowercase oval, distinct from the Greek omicron by subtle stylistic differences in the Coptic tradition.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2C9F |
| Version Added | 4.1 |
| Name | Coptic Small Letter O |
| Block | Coptic |
| General Category | Lowercase 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 0x9F |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2C9F |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002C9F |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2c9f |
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 | "Ⲟ" U+2C9E Coptic Capital Letter O |
| Simple Titlecase Code Point | "Ⲟ" U+2C9E Coptic Capital Letter O |
| Uppercase Code Point | "Ⲟ" U+2C9E Coptic Capital Letter O |
| Titlecase Code Point | "Ⲟ" U+2C9E Coptic Capital Letter O |
| 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 |