U+2CC3 "ⳃ" Coptic Small Letter Crossed Shei Unicode Character

U+2CC3 "ⳃ" Coptic Small Letter Crossed Shei is a distinctive letter from the Coptic alphabet, which was used for writing the Coptic language, the final stage of the ancient Egyptian language. This character is a variant of the standard Coptic letter Shei, distinguished by a horizontal stroke or crossbar crossing its upper portion, which likely served to indicate a specific phonetic value or a unique scribal variation. It belongs to the Coptic block of Unicode and represents one of the more specialized characters within the script, primarily utilized in historical and liturgical texts.

General Properties

Code Point	U+2CC3
Version Added	4.1
Name	Coptic Small Letter Crossed Shei
Block	Coptic
General Category	Lowercase 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 0x83
UTF-16 Encoding	0x2CC3
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00002CC3
C/C++/Java Escape	\u2cc3

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	"Ⳃ" U+2CC2 Coptic Capital Letter Crossed Shei
Simple Titlecase Code Point	"Ⳃ" U+2CC2 Coptic Capital Letter Crossed Shei
Uppercase Code Point	"Ⳃ" U+2CC2 Coptic Capital Letter Crossed Shei
Titlecase Code Point	"Ⳃ" U+2CC2 Coptic Capital Letter Crossed Shei
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