U+2CBF "ⲿ" Coptic Small Letter Old Coptic Oou Unicode Character

U+2CBF "ⲿ" Coptic Small Letter Old Coptic Oou is a distinctive glyph from the Coptic script, specifically representing a vowel sound used in the Old Coptic phase of the language, which was influenced by Egyptian Demotic. This character is part of the Coptic alphabet's extended set and was historically employed in early Coptic manuscripts before the standardization of the script. Unlike the more common Coptic letters, the Old Coptic Oou denotes a particular oo or u sound and appears rarely, primarily in religious and magical texts from late antique Egypt. Its inclusion in Unicode helps preserve and digitally represent this historical orthographic variant for scholars and linguists studying the evolution of the Coptic language.

General Properties

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

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ⲿ
HTML Hex Encoding	ⲿ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE2 0xB2 0xBF
UTF-16 Encoding	0x2CBF
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00002CBF
C/C++/Java Escape	\u2cbf

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	"Ⲿ" U+2CBE Coptic Capital Letter Old Coptic Oou
Simple Titlecase Code Point	"Ⲿ" U+2CBE Coptic Capital Letter Old Coptic Oou
Uppercase Code Point	"Ⲿ" U+2CBE Coptic Capital Letter Old Coptic Oou
Titlecase Code Point	"Ⲿ" U+2CBE Coptic Capital Letter Old Coptic Oou
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