U+2CA3 "ⲣ" Coptic Small Letter Ro Unicode Character

U+2CA3 "ⲣ" Coptic Small Letter Ro is a glyph used in the Coptic alphabet to represent the sound /r/, similar to the Latin letter "r" or the Greek letter rho from which it is historically derived. This character is part of the Coptic script block in Unicode, which was encoded to support the liturgical and scholarly use of the Coptic language, the final stage of the ancient Egyptian language written primarily in an adapted Greek alphabet. The Coptic Small Letter Ro appears in lowercase form and is often used in religious texts, such as those of the Coptic Orthodox Church, as well as in academic publications for the study of Egyptian linguistics and early Christian writings.

General Properties

Code Point	U+2CA3
Version Added	4.1
Name	Coptic Small Letter Ro
Block	Coptic
General Category	Lowercase 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 0xA3
UTF-16 Encoding	0x2CA3
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00002CA3
C/C++/Java Escape	\u2ca3

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	"Ⲣ" U+2CA2 Coptic Capital Letter Ro
Simple Titlecase Code Point	"Ⲣ" U+2CA2 Coptic Capital Letter Ro
Uppercase Code Point	"Ⲣ" U+2CA2 Coptic Capital Letter Ro
Titlecase Code Point	"Ⲣ" U+2CA2 Coptic Capital Letter Ro
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