U+2CCF "ⳏ" Coptic Small Letter Old Coptic Ha Unicode Character

U+2CCF "ⳏ" Coptic Small Letter Old Coptic Ha is a glyph used in the Coptic script to represent a sound specific to the Old Coptic phase, an early stage of Coptic writing employed before the standardization of the Coptic alphabet. This letter corresponds to the voiced glottal or pharyngeal fricative sound, akin to the Egyptian "ḫ" or "h," and is typically found in ancient religious and magical texts rather than in later liturgical use. Its inclusion in Unicode ensures that scholars can digitally preserve and study these rare manuscript traditions without relying on specialized fonts or manual transcription.

General Properties

Code Point	U+2CCF
Version Added	4.1
Name	Coptic Small Letter Old Coptic Ha
Block	Coptic
General Category	Lowercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ⳏ
HTML Hex Encoding	ⳏ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE2 0xB3 0x8F
UTF-16 Encoding	0x2CCF
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00002CCF
C/C++/Java Escape	\u2ccf

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	"Ⳏ" U+2CCE Coptic Capital Letter Old Coptic Ha
Simple Titlecase Code Point	"Ⳏ" U+2CCE Coptic Capital Letter Old Coptic Ha
Uppercase Code Point	"Ⳏ" U+2CCE Coptic Capital Letter Old Coptic Ha
Titlecase Code Point	"Ⳏ" U+2CCE Coptic Capital Letter Old Coptic Ha
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