U+2CC2 "Ⳃ" Coptic Capital Letter Crossed Shei Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
Ⳃ
U+2CC2 "Ⳃ" Coptic Capital Letter Crossed Shei is a variant of the Coptic letter Shei, distinguished by a horizontal stroke or crossbar through its central vertical stem. It was used in the Coptic script, which is derived from the Greek alphabet with additional letters for sounds not present in Greek, to represent the same sound as the standard Shei, likely a "sh" phoneme. This crossed form appears in certain historical manuscripts or inscriptions, possibly serving a scribal function such as an abbreviation or a decorative variant. As part of the Unicode Standard's Coptic block, it ensures digital representation for scholarly work on Coptic language and literature, particularly early Christian texts from Egypt.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2CC2 |
| Version Added | 4.1 |
| Name | Coptic Capital Letter Crossed Shei |
| Block | Coptic |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ⳃ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ⳃ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0xB3 0x82 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2CC2 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002CC2 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2cc2 |
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 | "ⳃ" U+2CC3 Coptic Small Letter Crossed Shei |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ⳃ" U+2CC3 Coptic Small Letter Crossed Shei |
| Simple Case Folding | "ⳃ" U+2CC3 Coptic Small Letter Crossed Shei |
| Case Folding | "ⳃ" U+2CC3 Coptic Small Letter Crossed Shei |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ⳃ" U+2CC3 Coptic Small Letter Crossed Shei |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ⳃ" U+2CC3 Coptic Small Letter Crossed Shei |
| 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 |