U+2CA7 "ⲧ" Coptic Small Letter Tau Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ⲧ
U+2CA7 "ⲧ" Coptic Small Letter Tau is the lowercase form of the nineteenth letter in the Coptic alphabet, derived from the Greek letter tau (Τ, τ) and used to represent the /t/ sound. This character is part of the Coptic script block in Unicode, which was added to support the liturgical and scholarly needs of the Coptic language, primarily used in the Egyptian Christian tradition. The letter appears in both biblical and historical Coptic texts, where it functions identically to its Greek counterpart in terms of phonetic value and alphabetical order.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2CA7 |
| Version Added | 4.1 |
| Name | Coptic Small Letter Tau |
| Block | Coptic |
| General Category | Lowercase 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 0xA7 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2CA7 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002CA7 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2ca7 |
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 | "Ⲧ" U+2CA6 Coptic Capital Letter Tau |
| Simple Titlecase Code Point | "Ⲧ" U+2CA6 Coptic Capital Letter Tau |
| Uppercase Code Point | "Ⲧ" U+2CA6 Coptic Capital Letter Tau |
| Titlecase Code Point | "Ⲧ" U+2CA6 Coptic Capital Letter Tau |
| 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 |