U+2CB2 "Ⲳ" Coptic Capital Letter Dialect-P Alef Unicode Character

U+2CB2 "Ⲳ" Coptic Capital Letter Dialect-P Alef is a specific letter used in the Coptic alphabet, which is the script employed for writing the Coptic language, the liturgical language of the Coptic Orthodox Church. This particular character represents a variant form of the letter Alef, typically associated with the Dialect P tradition of Coptic, where it denotes a glottal stop or a vowel sound. It is part of the Coptic script block in Unicode, which was added to support the historical and religious texts that use this ancient Egyptian script, distinguishing itself from the standard Coptic Alef by its dialectal usage.

General Properties

Code Point	U+2CB2
Version Added	4.1
Name	Coptic Capital Letter Dialect-P Alef
Block	Coptic
General Category	Uppercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	Ⲳ
HTML Hex Encoding	Ⲳ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE2 0xB2 0xB2
UTF-16 Encoding	0x2CB2
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00002CB2
C/C++/Java Escape	\u2cb2

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	"ⲳ" U+2CB3 Coptic Small Letter Dialect-P Alef
Lowercase Code Point	"ⲳ" U+2CB3 Coptic Small Letter Dialect-P Alef
Simple Case Folding	"ⲳ" U+2CB3 Coptic Small Letter Dialect-P Alef
Case Folding	"ⲳ" U+2CB3 Coptic Small Letter Dialect-P Alef
Cased	Yes
Changes When Casefolded	Yes
Changes When Casemapped	Yes
Changes When Lowercased	Yes
Changes When NFKC Casefolded	Yes
NFKC Casefold	"ⲳ" U+2CB3 Coptic Small Letter Dialect-P Alef
NFKC Simple Casefold	"ⲳ" U+2CB3 Coptic Small Letter Dialect-P Alef
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