U+2CEC "ⳬ" Coptic Small Letter Cryptogrammic Shei Unicode Character

U+2CEC "ⳬ" Coptic Small Letter Cryptogrammic Shei is a typographic variant of the standard Coptic letter shei, used specifically in cryptographic or codex contexts within ancient Coptic manuscripts. This small letter form represents a specialized glyph that scribes employed to obscure or encrypt certain passages, often for mystical or liturgical secrecy, distinct from the regular shei shape. It belongs to the Coptic script block in Unicode, supporting the preservation of historical writing practices where letterforms carried hidden meanings or were part of secret alphabets. Its inclusion enables accurate digital representation of these rare textual artifacts for scholarly study and digital archives.

General Properties

Code Point	U+2CEC
Version Added	5.2
Name	Coptic Small Letter Cryptogrammic Shei
Block	Coptic
General Category	Lowercase 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 0xAC
UTF-16 Encoding	0x2CEC
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00002CEC
C/C++/Java Escape	\u2cec

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	"Ⳬ" U+2CEB Coptic Capital Letter Cryptogrammic Shei
Simple Titlecase Code Point	"Ⳬ" U+2CEB Coptic Capital Letter Cryptogrammic Shei
Uppercase Code Point	"Ⳬ" U+2CEB Coptic Capital Letter Cryptogrammic Shei
Titlecase Code Point	"Ⳬ" U+2CEB Coptic Capital Letter Cryptogrammic Shei
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