U+2CAB "ⲫ" Coptic Small Letter Fi Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ⲫ
U+2CAB "ⲫ" Coptic Small Letter Fi is a glyph from the Coptic script, which was derived from the Greek alphabet and used to write the Coptic language, the liturgical language of the Coptic Orthodox Church. This character represents the sound /f/ or /pʰ/ and corresponds to the Greek letter phi (φ), though its shape is distinct, often appearing as a rounded form with a vertical stroke. It is part of the Coptic Unicode block, which was added to support the digital representation of ancient and medieval Coptic texts, preserving the language's cultural and religious heritage.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2CAB |
| Version Added | 4.1 |
| Name | Coptic Small Letter Fi |
| Block | Coptic |
| General Category | Lowercase 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 0xAB |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2CAB |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002CAB |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2cab |
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 | "Ⲫ" U+2CAA Coptic Capital Letter Fi |
| Simple Titlecase Code Point | "Ⲫ" U+2CAA Coptic Capital Letter Fi |
| Uppercase Code Point | "Ⲫ" U+2CAA Coptic Capital Letter Fi |
| Titlecase Code Point | "Ⲫ" U+2CAA Coptic Capital Letter Fi |
| 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 |