U+2CAA "Ⲫ" Coptic Capital Letter Fi Unicode Character

U+2CAA "Ⲫ" Coptic Capital Letter Fi is a glyph used in the Coptic alphabet, where it represents a sound equivalent to the Greek letter Phi, typically pronounced as the "f" sound. This character was encoded as part of the Coptic script block to facilitate the digital representation of the Coptic language, which is the liturgical language of the Coptic Orthodox Church. Historically derived from the Greek alphabet, the Coptic letter Fi appears in uppercase form and is distinct from its lowercase counterpart, which is a separate Unicode entry, and it remains an important part of preserving ancient and medieval Coptic texts.

General Properties

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

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	Ⲫ
HTML Hex Encoding	Ⲫ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE2 0xB2 0xAA
UTF-16 Encoding	0x2CAA
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00002CAA
C/C++/Java Escape	\u2caa

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	"ⲫ" U+2CAB Coptic Small Letter Fi
Lowercase Code Point	"ⲫ" U+2CAB Coptic Small Letter Fi
Simple Case Folding	"ⲫ" U+2CAB Coptic Small Letter Fi
Case Folding	"ⲫ" U+2CAB Coptic Small Letter Fi
Cased	Yes
Changes When Casefolded	Yes
Changes When Casemapped	Yes
Changes When Lowercased	Yes
Changes When NFKC Casefolded	Yes
NFKC Casefold	"ⲫ" U+2CAB Coptic Small Letter Fi
NFKC Simple Casefold	"ⲫ" U+2CAB Coptic Small Letter Fi
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