U+2CB5 "ⲵ" Coptic Small Letter Old Coptic Ain Unicode Character

U+2CB5 "ⲵ" Coptic Small Letter Old Coptic Ain is a variant of the letter used primarily in the Old Coptic script, which was an early stage of the Coptic alphabet before the standardized Greek-based system was adopted. This specific character represents a sound resembling a voiced pharyngeal fricative, similar to the Arabic letter 'Ain, and it appears in manuscripts and inscriptions from the early Christian period in Egypt. Its inclusion in Unicode helps preserve and digitally represent ancient texts that are crucial for studying the evolution of the Coptic language and its connection to earlier Egyptian writing systems.

General Properties

Code Point	U+2CB5
Version Added	4.1
Name	Coptic Small Letter Old Coptic Ain
Block	Coptic
General Category	Lowercase 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 0xB5
UTF-16 Encoding	0x2CB5
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00002CB5
C/C++/Java Escape	\u2cb5

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	"Ⲵ" U+2CB4 Coptic Capital Letter Old Coptic Ain
Simple Titlecase Code Point	"Ⲵ" U+2CB4 Coptic Capital Letter Old Coptic Ain
Uppercase Code Point	"Ⲵ" U+2CB4 Coptic Capital Letter Old Coptic Ain
Titlecase Code Point	"Ⲵ" U+2CB4 Coptic Capital Letter Old Coptic Ain
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