U+2CE3 "ⳣ" Coptic Small Letter Old Nubian Wau Unicode Character

U+2CE3 "ⳣ" Coptic Small Letter Old Nubian Wau is a script-specific letter from the Coptic Unicode block, representing a variant of the letter "wau" that was used in writing the Old Nubian language, an extinct Nilo-Saharan language of medieval Nubia. This character, with its rounded, open form distinct from standard Coptic letters, was incorporated into Unicode as part of efforts to digitally preserve the historical scripts of African Christian kingdoms, allowing scholars to encode ancient liturgical and administrative texts that employed this unique grapheme for representing the /w/ sound.

General Properties

Code Point	U+2CE3
Version Added	4.1
Name	Coptic Small Letter Old Nubian Wau
Block	Coptic
General Category	Lowercase 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 0xA3
UTF-16 Encoding	0x2CE3
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00002CE3
C/C++/Java Escape	\u2ce3

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	"Ⳣ" U+2CE2 Coptic Capital Letter Old Nubian Wau
Simple Titlecase Code Point	"Ⳣ" U+2CE2 Coptic Capital Letter Old Nubian Wau
Uppercase Code Point	"Ⳣ" U+2CE2 Coptic Capital Letter Old Nubian Wau
Titlecase Code Point	"Ⳣ" U+2CE2 Coptic Capital Letter Old Nubian Wau
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