U+2CC9 "ⳉ" Coptic Small Letter Akhmimic Khei Unicode Character

U+2CC9 "ⳉ" Coptic Small Letter Akhmimic Khei is a glyph used in the Coptic script, specifically representing a variant letter found in the Akhmimic dialect of the Coptic language. This character is a small letter that corresponds to a unique phonetic sound, distinct from standard Coptic letters, and is primarily employed in ancient religious and literary texts from the Akhmim region of Egypt. Its inclusion in Unicode helps preserve and digitally represent this historical script, facilitating scholarly work and digital typography for Coptic studies.

General Properties

Code Point	U+2CC9
Version Added	4.1
Name	Coptic Small Letter Akhmimic Khei
Block	Coptic
General Category	Lowercase 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 0x89
UTF-16 Encoding	0x2CC9
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00002CC9
C/C++/Java Escape	\u2cc9

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	"Ⳉ" U+2CC8 Coptic Capital Letter Akhmimic Khei
Simple Titlecase Code Point	"Ⳉ" U+2CC8 Coptic Capital Letter Akhmimic Khei
Uppercase Code Point	"Ⳉ" U+2CC8 Coptic Capital Letter Akhmimic Khei
Titlecase Code Point	"Ⳉ" U+2CC8 Coptic Capital Letter Akhmimic Khei
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