U+2CB8 "Ⲹ" Coptic Capital Letter Dialect-P Kapa Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+2CB8 "Ⲹ" Coptic Capital Letter Dialect-P Kapa is a variant of the Greek-based letter kappa used specifically in the Coptic script for the Sahidic dialect, where it represents a voiceless velar plosive sound. This character forms part of the Coptic alphabet's extended set, which was standardized to encode distinct letters for different regional Coptic dialects, with "Dialect-P" referring to its use in the Sahidic literary tradition. Typographically, it resembles a capital Kappa but may feature a slightly different stroke angle or top shape compared to the standard Coptic Kapa, preserving the linguistic nuances of early Coptic manuscripts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2CB8 |
| Version Added | 4.1 |
| Name | Coptic Capital Letter Dialect-P Kapa |
| Block | Coptic |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ⲹ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ⲹ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0xB2 0xB8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2CB8 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002CB8 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2cb8 |
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 | "ⲹ" U+2CB9 Coptic Small Letter Dialect-P Kapa |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ⲹ" U+2CB9 Coptic Small Letter Dialect-P Kapa |
| Simple Case Folding | "ⲹ" U+2CB9 Coptic Small Letter Dialect-P Kapa |
| Case Folding | "ⲹ" U+2CB9 Coptic Small Letter Dialect-P Kapa |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ⲹ" U+2CB9 Coptic Small Letter Dialect-P Kapa |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ⲹ" U+2CB9 Coptic Small Letter Dialect-P Kapa |
| 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 |