U+2CA9 "ⲩ" Coptic Small Letter Ua Unicode Character

U+2CA9 "ⲩ" Coptic Small Letter Ua is a grapheme used in the Coptic alphabet, where it represents the vowel sound /u/ or /w/ and corresponds to the Greek letter upsilon (Υ υ) from which it is historically derived. This character is part of the Coptic script, which was developed from the Greek alphabet with additional letters borrowed from the Demotic Egyptian script, and is employed primarily in liturgical and scholarly texts for the Coptic Orthodox Church as well as in the reconstruction of the ancient Egyptian language. Its standard appearance is a small, rounded form similar to a Latin "u" but often with a slight leftward leaning stroke, distinguishing it from other vowel characters in the Coptic writing system.

General Properties

Code Point	U+2CA9
Version Added	4.1
Name	Coptic Small Letter Ua
Block	Coptic
General Category	Lowercase 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 0xA9
UTF-16 Encoding	0x2CA9
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00002CA9
C/C++/Java Escape	\u2ca9

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	"Ⲩ" U+2CA8 Coptic Capital Letter Ua
Simple Titlecase Code Point	"Ⲩ" U+2CA8 Coptic Capital Letter Ua
Uppercase Code Point	"Ⲩ" U+2CA8 Coptic Capital Letter Ua
Titlecase Code Point	"Ⲩ" U+2CA8 Coptic Capital Letter Ua
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