U+2CC4 "Ⳅ" Coptic Capital Letter Old Coptic Shei Unicode Character
U+2CC4 "Ⳅ" Coptic Capital Letter Old Coptic Shei is a historical letter used in the Coptic script, specifically representing a variant form of the letter Shei that appears in Old Coptic texts predating the standardized Coptic alphabet. This character corresponds to a sound similar to the English "sh" and was employed in early Coptic manuscripts to transcribe Egyptian language words, often in magical or religious contexts. Its shape and usage differ from the later, more common Coptic Shei (U+2CB2), reflecting the evolutionary stages of the script before it was fully standardized. As part of the Coptic Unicode block, this capital letter is typically paired with its lowercase equivalent (U+2CC5) and serves as a key resource for scholars studying ancient Egyptian linguistics and paleography.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2CC4 |
| Version Added | 4.1 |
| Name | Coptic Capital Letter Old Coptic Shei |
| Block | Coptic |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ⳅ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ⳅ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0xB3 0x84 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2CC4 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002CC4 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2cc4 |
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 | "ⳅ" U+2CC5 Coptic Small Letter Old Coptic Shei |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ⳅ" U+2CC5 Coptic Small Letter Old Coptic Shei |
| Simple Case Folding | "ⳅ" U+2CC5 Coptic Small Letter Old Coptic Shei |
| Case Folding | "ⳅ" U+2CC5 Coptic Small Letter Old Coptic Shei |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ⳅ" U+2CC5 Coptic Small Letter Old Coptic Shei |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ⳅ" U+2CC5 Coptic Small Letter Old Coptic 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 |