U+2CD3 "ⳓ" Coptic Small Letter Old Coptic Hei Unicode Character

U+2CD3 "ⳓ" Coptic Small Letter Old Coptic Hei is a glyph used in the Coptic script, specifically representing a variant form of the letter Hei from the Old Coptic tradition. This character is part of the Coptic alphabet block in Unicode and corresponds to a historical letter that likely originated from the Demotic script, used to denote a breathy or aspirated sound in earlier stages of the Coptic language. Its inclusion in the Unicode standard allows for the accurate digital representation of ancient Coptic texts, particularly those preserving archaic orthographic forms, and supports academic work in Egyptology and linguistic studies of late antique Egypt.

General Properties

Code Point	U+2CD3
Version Added	4.1
Name	Coptic Small Letter Old Coptic Hei
Block	Coptic
General Category	Lowercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ⳓ
HTML Hex Encoding	ⳓ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE2 0xB3 0x93
UTF-16 Encoding	0x2CD3
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00002CD3
C/C++/Java Escape	\u2cd3

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	"Ⳓ" U+2CD2 Coptic Capital Letter Old Coptic Hei
Simple Titlecase Code Point	"Ⳓ" U+2CD2 Coptic Capital Letter Old Coptic Hei
Uppercase Code Point	"Ⳓ" U+2CD2 Coptic Capital Letter Old Coptic Hei
Titlecase Code Point	"Ⳓ" U+2CD2 Coptic Capital Letter Old Coptic Hei
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