U+2CE4 "ⳤ" Coptic Symbol Kai Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ⳤ
U+2CE4 "ⳤ" Coptic Symbol Kai is a glyph used in the Coptic script to represent the sound /k/ or /q/, functioning as a variant of the standard letter kappa, often with a unique calligraphic or decorative form in medieval Coptic manuscripts. It derives from the Coptic alphabet, which itself was adapted from the Greek alphabet, and was primarily employed in liturgical and religious texts of the Coptic Christian tradition in Egypt. This symbol is preserved in the Unicode Standard to support historical and scholarly digitization of Coptic language materials, ensuring accurate representation of diverse scribal practices.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2CE4 |
| Version Added | 4.1 |
| Name | Coptic Symbol Kai |
| Block | Coptic |
| General Category | Lowercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ⳤ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ⳤ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0xB3 0xA4 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2CE4 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002CE4 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2ce4 |