U+2CA2 "Ⲣ" Coptic Capital Letter Ro Unicode Character

U+2CA2 "Ⲣ" Coptic Capital Letter Ro is a letter used in the Coptic alphabet, representing the sound equivalent to the Latin letter R. It is derived from the Greek letter Rho and serves as the 17th letter of the standard Coptic script, which was historically employed for writing the Egyptian Coptic language, primarily in liturgical contexts of the Coptic Orthodox Church. In modern usage, this character is part of the Unicode Coptic block, enabling its digital representation for scholarly, religious, and linguistic purposes, though it is distinct from the similar-looking Latin letter P or Greek Rho due to its specific typographic design and encoding.

General Properties

Code Point	U+2CA2
Version Added	4.1
Name	Coptic Capital Letter Ro
Block	Coptic
General Category	Uppercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	Ⲣ
HTML Hex Encoding	Ⲣ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE2 0xB2 0xA2
UTF-16 Encoding	0x2CA2
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00002CA2
C/C++/Java Escape	\u2ca2

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	"ⲣ" U+2CA3 Coptic Small Letter Ro
Lowercase Code Point	"ⲣ" U+2CA3 Coptic Small Letter Ro
Simple Case Folding	"ⲣ" U+2CA3 Coptic Small Letter Ro
Case Folding	"ⲣ" U+2CA3 Coptic Small Letter Ro
Cased	Yes
Changes When Casefolded	Yes
Changes When Casemapped	Yes
Changes When Lowercased	Yes
Changes When NFKC Casefolded	Yes
NFKC Casefold	"ⲣ" U+2CA3 Coptic Small Letter Ro
NFKC Simple Casefold	"ⲣ" U+2CA3 Coptic Small Letter Ro
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