U+2CC1 "ⳁ" Coptic Small Letter Sampi Unicode Character

U+2CC1 "ⳁ" Coptic Small Letter Sampi is a typographic representation of a letter from the Coptic alphabet, which was used to write the Egyptian language from the early Christian era onward. This specific character, known as "sampi," is derived from the Greek letter of the same name and was employed in Coptic as a numeral sign for the number 900, rather than as a standard phonetic letter in most texts. Its shape resembles a curved or angular form, distinct from its uppercase counterpart U+2CC0, and it is part of the Coptic script block in Unicode, ensuring its preservation for scholarly and liturgical use in studying ancient Egyptian Christianity and linguistic history.

General Properties

Code Point	U+2CC1
Version Added	4.1
Name	Coptic Small Letter Sampi
Block	Coptic
General Category	Lowercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ⳁ
HTML Hex Encoding	ⳁ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE2 0xB3 0x81
UTF-16 Encoding	0x2CC1
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00002CC1
C/C++/Java Escape	\u2cc1

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	"Ⳁ" U+2CC0 Coptic Capital Letter Sampi
Simple Titlecase Code Point	"Ⳁ" U+2CC0 Coptic Capital Letter Sampi
Uppercase Code Point	"Ⳁ" U+2CC0 Coptic Capital Letter Sampi
Titlecase Code Point	"Ⳁ" U+2CC0 Coptic Capital Letter Sampi
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