U+2CA4 "Ⲥ" Coptic Capital Letter Sima Unicode Character

U+2CA4 "Ⲥ" Coptic Capital Letter Sima is a glyph used in the Coptic alphabet, where it represents the sound equivalent to the Latin letter S. This character is a capital form of the letter sima, which corresponds to the Greek letter sigma in shape and function, often appearing in religious and historical Coptic manuscripts. As part of the Coptic script block in Unicode, it helps preserve and digitally encode the ancient Egyptian Christian liturgical language, enabling modern text processing and display for scholars and communities.

General Properties

Code Point	U+2CA4
Version Added	4.1
Name	Coptic Capital Letter Sima
Block	Coptic
General Category	Uppercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	Ⲥ
HTML Hex Encoding	Ⲥ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE2 0xB2 0xA4
UTF-16 Encoding	0x2CA4
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00002CA4
C/C++/Java Escape	\u2ca4

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	"ⲥ" U+2CA5 Coptic Small Letter Sima
Lowercase Code Point	"ⲥ" U+2CA5 Coptic Small Letter Sima
Simple Case Folding	"ⲥ" U+2CA5 Coptic Small Letter Sima
Case Folding	"ⲥ" U+2CA5 Coptic Small Letter Sima
Cased	Yes
Changes When Casefolded	Yes
Changes When Casemapped	Yes
Changes When Lowercased	Yes
Changes When NFKC Casefolded	Yes
NFKC Casefold	"ⲥ" U+2CA5 Coptic Small Letter Sima
NFKC Simple Casefold	"ⲥ" U+2CA5 Coptic Small Letter Sima
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