U+2CD7 "ⳗ" Coptic Small Letter Old Coptic Gangia Unicode Character

U+2CD7 "ⳗ" Coptic Small Letter Old Coptic Gangia is a historical glyph used in the Coptic alphabet, specifically representing a unique sound or letter from the Old Coptic script, which was employed in early Egyptian Christian texts before the standardization of the Coptic alphabet. This character, part of the Coptic script block in Unicode, is a lowercase form of the Gangia letter, which itself is a variant or archaic form distinct from the mainstream Coptic letters. Its inclusion in Unicode helps preserve and digitally encode ancient Egyptian linguistic heritage, facilitating accurate representation of diverse Coptic dialects and manuscript traditions for scholars and digital typography.

General Properties

Code Point	U+2CD7
Version Added	4.1
Name	Coptic Small Letter Old Coptic Gangia
Block	Coptic
General Category	Lowercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ⳗ
HTML Hex Encoding	ⳗ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE2 0xB3 0x97
UTF-16 Encoding	0x2CD7
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00002CD7
C/C++/Java Escape	\u2cd7

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	"Ⳗ" U+2CD6 Coptic Capital Letter Old Coptic Gangia
Simple Titlecase Code Point	"Ⳗ" U+2CD6 Coptic Capital Letter Old Coptic Gangia
Uppercase Code Point	"Ⳗ" U+2CD6 Coptic Capital Letter Old Coptic Gangia
Titlecase Code Point	"Ⳗ" U+2CD6 Coptic Capital Letter Old Coptic Gangia
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