U+2CDE "Ⳟ" Coptic Capital Letter Old Nubian Ngi Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
Ⳟ
U+2CDE "Ⳟ" Coptic Capital Letter Old Nubian Ngi is a symbol used in the Coptic script to represent a specific sound in the Old Nubian language, which was spoken in the medieval Christian kingdoms of Nubia along the Nile. This uppercase letter corresponds to a nasalized velar or uvular sound, often transliterated as "ng" or "ŋg," and was part of a specialized set of characters added to the Coptic alphabet to write Old Nubian texts. The character is classified under the Coptic script block in Unicode and is historically attested in manuscripts, including religious and legal documents, from the Nubian region dating primarily between the 8th and 15th centuries.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2CDE |
| Version Added | 4.1 |
| Name | Coptic Capital Letter Old Nubian Ngi |
| Block | Coptic |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ⳟ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ⳟ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0xB3 0x9E |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2CDE |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002CDE |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2cde |
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 | "ⳟ" U+2CDF Coptic Small Letter Old Nubian Ngi |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ⳟ" U+2CDF Coptic Small Letter Old Nubian Ngi |
| Simple Case Folding | "ⳟ" U+2CDF Coptic Small Letter Old Nubian Ngi |
| Case Folding | "ⳟ" U+2CDF Coptic Small Letter Old Nubian Ngi |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ⳟ" U+2CDF Coptic Small Letter Old Nubian Ngi |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ⳟ" U+2CDF Coptic Small Letter Old Nubian Ngi |
| 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 |