U+2CA1 "ⲡ" Coptic Small Letter Pi Unicode Character

U+2CA1 "ⲡ" Coptic Small Letter Pi is the lowercase form of the 17th letter of the Coptic alphabet, derived from the Greek letter Pi (Π, π). In the Coptic script, which was used for writing the Egyptian Coptic language, this letter represents the sound /p/, identical to its Greek counterpart. Historically, it appears in religious and liturgical texts of the Coptic Orthodox Church, preserving the ancient Egyptian language in a modified Greek alphabet. As part of the Coptic Unicode block, it enables modern digital representation of this historic script for scholarly, theological, and cultural preservation purposes.

General Properties

Code Point	U+2CA1
Version Added	4.1
Name	Coptic Small Letter Pi
Block	Coptic
General Category	Lowercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ⲡ
HTML Hex Encoding	ⲡ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE2 0xB2 0xA1
UTF-16 Encoding	0x2CA1
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00002CA1
C/C++/Java Escape	\u2ca1

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	"Ⲡ" U+2CA0 Coptic Capital Letter Pi
Simple Titlecase Code Point	"Ⲡ" U+2CA0 Coptic Capital Letter Pi
Uppercase Code Point	"Ⲡ" U+2CA0 Coptic Capital Letter Pi
Titlecase Code Point	"Ⲡ" U+2CA0 Coptic Capital Letter Pi
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