U+2CDF "ⳟ" Coptic Small Letter Old Nubian Ngi Unicode Character

U+2CDF "ⳟ" Coptic Small Letter Old Nubian Ngi is a glyph used in the Coptic script to represent a specific phoneme from the Old Nubian language, which was spoken in medieval Nubia along the Nile River. This character corresponds to a sound similar to the English "ng" as in "sing" and is part of a set of additional letters created to adapt the Greek-derived Coptic alphabet for writing Old Nubian texts, often found in religious and legal manuscripts. Its inclusion in Unicode helps preserve and digitally represent this historical writing system, allowing scholars and enthusiasts to accurately display and study ancient Nubian literature and inscriptions.

General Properties

Code Point	U+2CDF
Version Added	4.1
Name	Coptic Small Letter Old Nubian Ngi
Block	Coptic
General Category	Lowercase 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 0x9F
UTF-16 Encoding	0x2CDF
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00002CDF
C/C++/Java Escape	\u2cdf

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	"Ⳟ" U+2CDE Coptic Capital Letter Old Nubian Ngi
Simple Titlecase Code Point	"Ⳟ" U+2CDE Coptic Capital Letter Old Nubian Ngi
Uppercase Code Point	"Ⳟ" U+2CDE Coptic Capital Letter Old Nubian Ngi
Titlecase Code Point	"Ⳟ" U+2CDE Coptic Capital Letter Old Nubian Ngi
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