U+2CB3 "ⲳ" Coptic Small Letter Dialect-P Alef Unicode Character

U+2CB3 "ⲳ" Coptic Small Letter Dialect-P Alef is a glyph used in the Coptic script, specifically representing a variant form of the letter alef that appears in the Coptic Dialect-P textual tradition. This character is part of the Coptic block in Unicode and is employed primarily in scholarly or liturgical contexts to distinguish dialectal phonological variations in ancient Coptic manuscripts. Its lowercase form corresponds to the uppercase U+2CB2 "Ⲳ" and helps preserve the precise orthographic details of specific Coptic dialects, particularly in the writing of words like "aleph" or related supernatural terms where the vowel sound or usage differed from standard Sahidic or Bohairic traditions.

General Properties

Code Point	U+2CB3
Version Added	4.1
Name	Coptic Small Letter Dialect-P Alef
Block	Coptic
General Category	Lowercase 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 0xB3
UTF-16 Encoding	0x2CB3
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00002CB3
C/C++/Java Escape	\u2cb3

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	"Ⲳ" U+2CB2 Coptic Capital Letter Dialect-P Alef
Simple Titlecase Code Point	"Ⲳ" U+2CB2 Coptic Capital Letter Dialect-P Alef
Uppercase Code Point	"Ⲳ" U+2CB2 Coptic Capital Letter Dialect-P Alef
Titlecase Code Point	"Ⲳ" U+2CB2 Coptic Capital Letter Dialect-P Alef
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