U+2CB6 "Ⲷ" Coptic Capital Letter Cryptogrammic Eie Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
Ⲷ
U+2CB6 "Ⲷ" Coptic Capital Letter Cryptogrammic Eie is a specialized letter used in the Coptic alphabet, primarily for cryptographic or esoteric writing systems rather than standard liturgical texts. It represents a variant form of the letter Eie, which corresponds to the sound /iː/ or /eː/, and its cryptogrammic nature suggests it was employed in encoded or secretive Coptic manuscripts to obscure meanings or to serve magical or liturgical puzzles. This character is part of the Unicode block reserved for Coptic script, ensuring its digital preservation for scholarly study of ancient Egyptian Christian texts and linguistic cryptography.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2CB6 |
| Version Added | 4.1 |
| Name | Coptic Capital Letter Cryptogrammic Eie |
| Block | Coptic |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ⲷ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ⲷ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0xB2 0xB6 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2CB6 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002CB6 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2cb6 |
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 | "ⲷ" U+2CB7 Coptic Small Letter Cryptogrammic Eie |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ⲷ" U+2CB7 Coptic Small Letter Cryptogrammic Eie |
| Simple Case Folding | "ⲷ" U+2CB7 Coptic Small Letter Cryptogrammic Eie |
| Case Folding | "ⲷ" U+2CB7 Coptic Small Letter Cryptogrammic Eie |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ⲷ" U+2CB7 Coptic Small Letter Cryptogrammic Eie |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ⲷ" U+2CB7 Coptic Small Letter Cryptogrammic Eie |
| 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 |