U+2CC6 "Ⳇ" Coptic Capital Letter Old Coptic Esh Unicode Character

U+2CC6 "Ⳇ" Coptic Capital Letter Old Coptic Esh is a letter historically used in the Old Coptic script, an early stage of the Coptic alphabet adapted from Egyptian Demotic and Greek scripts. This character represents a phoneme akin to the "sh" sound, and it is typically employed in writing certain Egyptian or Coptic words, particularly in religious or magical texts before the standardization of the Coptic alphabet. Unlike the standard late-stage Coptic alphabet, which largely omitted this character, the Old Coptic Esh was retained in some manuscript traditions for transliterating specific Demotic-derived sounds.

General Properties

Code Point	U+2CC6
Version Added	4.1
Name	Coptic Capital Letter Old Coptic Esh
Block	Coptic
General Category	Uppercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	Ⳇ
HTML Hex Encoding	Ⳇ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE2 0xB3 0x86
UTF-16 Encoding	0x2CC6
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00002CC6
C/C++/Java Escape	\u2cc6

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	"ⳇ" U+2CC7 Coptic Small Letter Old Coptic Esh
Lowercase Code Point	"ⳇ" U+2CC7 Coptic Small Letter Old Coptic Esh
Simple Case Folding	"ⳇ" U+2CC7 Coptic Small Letter Old Coptic Esh
Case Folding	"ⳇ" U+2CC7 Coptic Small Letter Old Coptic Esh
Cased	Yes
Changes When Casefolded	Yes
Changes When Casemapped	Yes
Changes When Lowercased	Yes
Changes When NFKC Casefolded	Yes
NFKC Casefold	"ⳇ" U+2CC7 Coptic Small Letter Old Coptic Esh
NFKC Simple Casefold	"ⳇ" U+2CC7 Coptic Small Letter Old Coptic Esh
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