U+2CE0 "Ⳡ" Coptic Capital Letter Old Nubian Nyi Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+2CE0 "Ⳡ" Coptic Capital Letter Old Nubian Nyi is a glyph used in the Coptic script to represent a specific consonant sound from the Old Nubian language, which was spoken in medieval Nubia (modern-day Sudan). This character is part of the Coptic Unicode block and serves as the capital form of the letter, typically employed in historical or liturgical texts to denote the voiced palatal nasal sound. Its inclusion in Unicode helps preserve and accurately encode manuscripts and inscriptions from the Christian Nubian period, ensuring that scholars and linguists can digitally represent this ancient writing system.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2CE0 |
| Version Added | 4.1 |
| Name | Coptic Capital Letter Old Nubian Nyi |
| Block | Coptic |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ⳡ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ⳡ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0xB3 0xA0 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2CE0 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002CE0 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2ce0 |
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 | "ⳡ" U+2CE1 Coptic Small Letter Old Nubian Nyi |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ⳡ" U+2CE1 Coptic Small Letter Old Nubian Nyi |
| Simple Case Folding | "ⳡ" U+2CE1 Coptic Small Letter Old Nubian Nyi |
| Case Folding | "ⳡ" U+2CE1 Coptic Small Letter Old Nubian Nyi |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ⳡ" U+2CE1 Coptic Small Letter Old Nubian Nyi |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ⳡ" U+2CE1 Coptic Small Letter Old Nubian Nyi |
| 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 |