U+2CDC "Ⳝ" Coptic Capital Letter Old Nubian Shima Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
Ⳝ
U+2CDC "Ⳝ" Coptic Capital Letter Old Nubian Shima is a typographic symbol used in the Coptic script to represent a specific phoneme in the Old Nubian language, which was spoken in medieval Nubia (modern-day Sudan and southern Egypt). This capital letter corresponds to a sound similar to the English "sh" and forms part of a specialized set of characters that the Coptic alphabet expanded to accommodate the phonetics of Old Nubian texts, primarily religious manuscripts from between the 8th and 15th centuries. Its inclusion in Unicode ensures that scholars and digital archivists can accurately preserve and reproduce historical writings that rely on this distinctive letter.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2CDC |
| Version Added | 4.1 |
| Name | Coptic Capital Letter Old Nubian Shima |
| Block | Coptic |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ⳝ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ⳝ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0xB3 0x9C |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2CDC |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002CDC |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2cdc |
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 | "ⳝ" U+2CDD Coptic Small Letter Old Nubian Shima |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ⳝ" U+2CDD Coptic Small Letter Old Nubian Shima |
| Simple Case Folding | "ⳝ" U+2CDD Coptic Small Letter Old Nubian Shima |
| Case Folding | "ⳝ" U+2CDD Coptic Small Letter Old Nubian Shima |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ⳝ" U+2CDD Coptic Small Letter Old Nubian Shima |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ⳝ" U+2CDD Coptic Small Letter Old Nubian Shima |
| 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 |