U+2CAE "Ⲯ" Coptic Capital Letter Psi Unicode Character

U+2CAE "Ⲯ" Coptic Capital Letter Psi is a glyph used in the Coptic alphabet, representing the sound /ps/ as in English "lips." It is derived from the Greek letter psi (Ψ) and is part of the Coptic script, which was used to write the Coptic language, the liturgical language of the Coptic Orthodox Church. This character typically appears in uppercase form in historical and religious texts, contrasting with its lowercase counterpart U+2CAF (ⲯ), and it belongs to the Coptic block of Unicode, which was added to support accurate representation of ancient and medieval Coptic manuscripts.

General Properties

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

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	Ⲯ
HTML Hex Encoding	Ⲯ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE2 0xB2 0xAE
UTF-16 Encoding	0x2CAE
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00002CAE
C/C++/Java Escape	\u2cae

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	"ⲯ" U+2CAF Coptic Small Letter Psi
Lowercase Code Point	"ⲯ" U+2CAF Coptic Small Letter Psi
Simple Case Folding	"ⲯ" U+2CAF Coptic Small Letter Psi
Case Folding	"ⲯ" U+2CAF Coptic Small Letter Psi
Cased	Yes
Changes When Casefolded	Yes
Changes When Casemapped	Yes
Changes When Lowercased	Yes
Changes When NFKC Casefolded	Yes
NFKC Casefold	"ⲯ" U+2CAF Coptic Small Letter Psi
NFKC Simple Casefold	"ⲯ" U+2CAF Coptic Small Letter Psi
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