U+2CE2 "Ⳣ" Coptic Capital Letter Old Nubian Wau Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
Ⳣ
U+2CE2 "Ⳣ" Coptic Capital Letter Old Nubian Wau is part of the Coptic script block and represents a distinct letter used in writing the Old Nubian language, which was spoken in medieval Nubia (present-day Sudan and southern Egypt). This capital letter corresponds to a sound similar to the English "w" or a labial glide, and its design echoes the Greek letter omega combined with a diacritical curl, reflecting the adaptation of the Coptic alphabet for Old Nubian phonology. Found primarily in religious manuscripts and inscriptions dating from the 8th to the 15th centuries, this character illustrates how writing systems evolved to accommodate the unique linguistic features of African languages during the Christian Nubian period.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2CE2 |
| Version Added | 4.1 |
| Name | Coptic Capital Letter Old Nubian Wau |
| Block | Coptic |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ⳣ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ⳣ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0xB3 0xA2 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2CE2 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002CE2 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2ce2 |
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 | "ⳣ" U+2CE3 Coptic Small Letter Old Nubian Wau |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ⳣ" U+2CE3 Coptic Small Letter Old Nubian Wau |
| Simple Case Folding | "ⳣ" U+2CE3 Coptic Small Letter Old Nubian Wau |
| Case Folding | "ⳣ" U+2CE3 Coptic Small Letter Old Nubian Wau |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ⳣ" U+2CE3 Coptic Small Letter Old Nubian Wau |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ⳣ" U+2CE3 Coptic Small Letter Old Nubian Wau |
| 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 |