U+2CD8 "Ⳙ" Coptic Capital Letter Old Coptic Dja Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+2CD8 "Ⳙ" Coptic Capital Letter Old Coptic Dja is a historically significant letter from the Old Coptic script, which was used primarily in early Egyptian magical and religious texts before the standardized Coptic alphabet emerged. This particular character represents a voiced palatal or postalveolar affricate sound, similar to the "j" in "judge", and it was derived from the demotic Egyptian script to write non Greek loanwords and native Egyptian words. As part of the Coptic Unicode block, it preserves a vital link to the linguistic and cultural transition between ancient Egyptian and later Coptic Christian traditions, though it fell out of regular use after the Coptic alphabet was fully codified with Greek borrowed letters.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2CD8 |
| Version Added | 4.1 |
| Name | Coptic Capital Letter Old Coptic Dja |
| Block | Coptic |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ⳙ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ⳙ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0xB3 0x98 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2CD8 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002CD8 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2cd8 |
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 | "ⳙ" U+2CD9 Coptic Small Letter Old Coptic Dja |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ⳙ" U+2CD9 Coptic Small Letter Old Coptic Dja |
| Simple Case Folding | "ⳙ" U+2CD9 Coptic Small Letter Old Coptic Dja |
| Case Folding | "ⳙ" U+2CD9 Coptic Small Letter Old Coptic Dja |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ⳙ" U+2CD9 Coptic Small Letter Old Coptic Dja |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ⳙ" U+2CD9 Coptic Small Letter Old Coptic Dja |
| 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 |