U+2CBD "ⲽ" Coptic Small Letter Cryptogrammic Ni Unicode Character

U+2CBD "ⲽ" Coptic Small Letter Cryptogrammic Ni is a glyph used in the Coptic alphabet, specifically within a set of cryptographic or ornamental letterforms that appear in certain ancient Coptic manuscripts. This character represents a variant of the letter Ni, distinguished by its unique shape which differs from standard Coptic Ni forms, and it was employed in texts for symbolic or decorative purposes rather than for ordinary phonetic transcription. Its inclusion in Unicode helps preserve and digitally represent the orthographic diversity found in historical Coptic documents, aiding scholars in accurate textual analysis and reproduction of these rare scripts.

General Properties

Code Point	U+2CBD
Version Added	4.1
Name	Coptic Small Letter Cryptogrammic Ni
Block	Coptic
General Category	Lowercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ⲽ
HTML Hex Encoding	ⲽ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE2 0xB2 0xBD
UTF-16 Encoding	0x2CBD
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00002CBD
C/C++/Java Escape	\u2cbd

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	"Ⲽ" U+2CBC Coptic Capital Letter Cryptogrammic Ni
Simple Titlecase Code Point	"Ⲽ" U+2CBC Coptic Capital Letter Cryptogrammic Ni
Uppercase Code Point	"Ⲽ" U+2CBC Coptic Capital Letter Cryptogrammic Ni
Titlecase Code Point	"Ⲽ" U+2CBC Coptic Capital Letter Cryptogrammic Ni
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