U+2CA6 "Ⲧ" Coptic Capital Letter Tau Unicode Character

U+2CA6 "Ⲧ" Coptic Capital Letter Tau is a glyph representing the nineteenth letter of the Coptic alphabet, derived from the Greek capital tau and used in the Coptic script to denote the sound /t/. It is primarily employed in liturgical and scholarly texts for the Coptic language, the final stage of ancient Egyptian written in a modified Greek alphabet with additional letters. This character is part of the Coptic block in Unicode, which was added to support the encoding of historic and religious manuscripts, ensuring accurate digital representation of Coptic literature and inscriptions.

General Properties

Code Point	U+2CA6
Version Added	4.1
Name	Coptic Capital Letter Tau
Block	Coptic
General Category	Uppercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	Ⲧ
HTML Hex Encoding	Ⲧ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE2 0xB2 0xA6
UTF-16 Encoding	0x2CA6
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00002CA6
C/C++/Java Escape	\u2ca6

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	"ⲧ" U+2CA7 Coptic Small Letter Tau
Lowercase Code Point	"ⲧ" U+2CA7 Coptic Small Letter Tau
Simple Case Folding	"ⲧ" U+2CA7 Coptic Small Letter Tau
Case Folding	"ⲧ" U+2CA7 Coptic Small Letter Tau
Cased	Yes
Changes When Casefolded	Yes
Changes When Casemapped	Yes
Changes When Lowercased	Yes
Changes When NFKC Casefolded	Yes
NFKC Casefold	"ⲧ" U+2CA7 Coptic Small Letter Tau
NFKC Simple Casefold	"ⲧ" U+2CA7 Coptic Small Letter Tau
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