U+2CAC "Ⲭ" Coptic Capital Letter Khi Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+2CAC "Ⲭ" Coptic Capital Letter Khi is a letter from the Coptic alphabet, historically used to write the Coptic language, the final stage of the ancient Egyptian language. This character represents the sound /kʰ/, a voiceless aspirated velar plosive, similar to the 'kh' sound in English words like "kite" but with a stronger burst of air. It is derived from the Greek letter Chi (Χ, χ) and is part of the Coptic script block in Unicode, which was added to support the liturgical and scholarly preservation of Coptic texts. The letter is typically used in modern contexts for writing Coptic in religious and academic settings, particularly within the Coptic Orthodox Church and in linguistic studies of Egyptian languages.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2CAC |
| Version Added | 4.1 |
| Name | Coptic Capital Letter Khi |
| Block | Coptic |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ⲭ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ⲭ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0xB2 0xAC |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2CAC |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002CAC |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2cac |
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 | "ⲭ" U+2CAD Coptic Small Letter Khi |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ⲭ" U+2CAD Coptic Small Letter Khi |
| Simple Case Folding | "ⲭ" U+2CAD Coptic Small Letter Khi |
| Case Folding | "ⲭ" U+2CAD Coptic Small Letter Khi |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ⲭ" U+2CAD Coptic Small Letter Khi |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ⲭ" U+2CAD Coptic Small Letter Khi |
| 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 |