U+2CEB "Ⳬ" Coptic Capital Letter Cryptogrammic Shei Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+2CEB "Ⳬ" Coptic Capital Letter Cryptogrammic Shei is a distinctive glyph used in the Coptic script, specifically employed within cryptographic or enigmatic texts to represent the sound "sh" (like the English "sh" in "ship") but in a modified or disguised form to obscure meaning. This character belongs to the Coptic block of Unicode and was added to support the scholarly transcription and digital preservation of ancient Coptic manuscripts that used such cryptogrammic variations. Its design resembles a stylized version of the standard Coptic letter Shei, often appearing with an extra flourish or loop to signal its special cryptographic purpose, making it a crucial tool for historians and linguists studying early Christian Egyptian texts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2CEB |
| Version Added | 5.2 |
| Name | Coptic Capital Letter Cryptogrammic Shei |
| Block | Coptic |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ⳬ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ⳬ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0xB3 0xAB |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2CEB |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002CEB |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2ceb |
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 | "ⳬ" U+2CEC Coptic Small Letter Cryptogrammic Shei |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ⳬ" U+2CEC Coptic Small Letter Cryptogrammic Shei |
| Simple Case Folding | "ⳬ" U+2CEC Coptic Small Letter Cryptogrammic Shei |
| Case Folding | "ⳬ" U+2CEC Coptic Small Letter Cryptogrammic Shei |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ⳬ" U+2CEC Coptic Small Letter Cryptogrammic Shei |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ⳬ" U+2CEC Coptic Small Letter Cryptogrammic Shei |
| 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 |