U+2CB4 "Ⲵ" Coptic Capital Letter Old Coptic Ain Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+2CB4 "Ⲵ" Coptic Capital Letter Old Coptic Ain is a letter used in the Coptic alphabet, specifically representing a phoneme derived from the ancient Egyptian language that corresponds roughly to a voiced pharyngeal or glottal sound similar to the Arabic letter 'Ain. It is part of the Coptic script's extended repertoire, which was employed to write the Coptic language, the final stage of the Egyptian language before it was largely replaced by Arabic. This particular character appears in historical and liturgical texts, especially those preserving old Coptic dialects, and its inclusion in Unicode helps scholars and digital archivists accurately represent and study such manuscripts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2CB4 |
| Version Added | 4.1 |
| Name | Coptic Capital Letter Old Coptic Ain |
| Block | Coptic |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ⲵ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ⲵ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0xB2 0xB4 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2CB4 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002CB4 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2cb4 |
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 | "ⲵ" U+2CB5 Coptic Small Letter Old Coptic Ain |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ⲵ" U+2CB5 Coptic Small Letter Old Coptic Ain |
| Simple Case Folding | "ⲵ" U+2CB5 Coptic Small Letter Old Coptic Ain |
| Case Folding | "ⲵ" U+2CB5 Coptic Small Letter Old Coptic Ain |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ⲵ" U+2CB5 Coptic Small Letter Old Coptic Ain |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ⲵ" U+2CB5 Coptic Small Letter Old Coptic Ain |
| 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 |