U+2CA8 "Ⲩ" Coptic Capital Letter Ua Unicode Character

U+2CA8 "Ⲩ" Coptic Capital Letter Ua is a letter used in the Coptic alphabet, which was employed for writing the Coptic language, the final stage of ancient Egyptian written in a script derived from the Greek alphabet with added letters from Demotic. This particular character represents a vowel sound, often transcribed as "u" or "ou," and is the capital form of the letter, typically used at the beginning of words or in specialized contexts, while its lowercase counterpart is U+2CA9. The character belongs to the Coptic block in Unicode, which was added to support the liturgical and scholarly study of Coptic texts, particularly those of the Coptic Orthodox Church.

General Properties

Code Point	U+2CA8
Version Added	4.1
Name	Coptic Capital Letter Ua
Block	Coptic
General Category	Uppercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	Ⲩ
HTML Hex Encoding	Ⲩ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE2 0xB2 0xA8
UTF-16 Encoding	0x2CA8
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00002CA8
C/C++/Java Escape	\u2ca8

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	"ⲩ" U+2CA9 Coptic Small Letter Ua
Lowercase Code Point	"ⲩ" U+2CA9 Coptic Small Letter Ua
Simple Case Folding	"ⲩ" U+2CA9 Coptic Small Letter Ua
Case Folding	"ⲩ" U+2CA9 Coptic Small Letter Ua
Cased	Yes
Changes When Casefolded	Yes
Changes When Casemapped	Yes
Changes When Lowercased	Yes
Changes When NFKC Casefolded	Yes
NFKC Casefold	"ⲩ" U+2CA9 Coptic Small Letter Ua
NFKC Simple Casefold	"ⲩ" U+2CA9 Coptic Small Letter Ua
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