U+2CC8 "Ⳉ" Coptic Capital Letter Akhmimic Khei Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+2CC8 "Ⳉ" Coptic Capital Letter Akhmimic Khei is a historical letter used in the Coptic script, specifically representing a variant form of the letter "Khei" found in the Akhmimic dialect of the Coptic language. This dialect was spoken in the Akhmim region of Upper Egypt and featured distinct phonetic and orthographic conventions compared to standard Sahidic Coptic. The capital letter form, encoded in the Unicode Standard's Coptic block, is employed primarily in scholarly and liturgical contexts to transliterate or reproduce ancient manuscripts, serving as a crucial tool for linguists and historians studying the development of Egyptian Christianity and its linguistic heritage.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2CC8 |
| Version Added | 4.1 |
| Name | Coptic Capital Letter Akhmimic Khei |
| Block | Coptic |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ⳉ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ⳉ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0xB3 0x88 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2CC8 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002CC8 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2cc8 |
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 | "ⳉ" U+2CC9 Coptic Small Letter Akhmimic Khei |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ⳉ" U+2CC9 Coptic Small Letter Akhmimic Khei |
| Simple Case Folding | "ⳉ" U+2CC9 Coptic Small Letter Akhmimic Khei |
| Case Folding | "ⳉ" U+2CC9 Coptic Small Letter Akhmimic Khei |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ⳉ" U+2CC9 Coptic Small Letter Akhmimic Khei |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ⳉ" U+2CC9 Coptic Small Letter Akhmimic Khei |
| 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 |