U+2CED "Ⳮ" Coptic Capital Letter Cryptogrammic Gangia Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
Ⳮ
U+2CED "Ⳮ" Coptic Capital Letter Cryptogrammic Gangia is a rare glyph used in the Coptic script, specifically within the cryptographic tradition where letters were assigned alternative forms to encode secret messages or create esoteric religious texts. This character represents a variant of the letter "Gangia," which corresponds to the sound /g/ and is derived from the Coptic alphabet, though its cryptogrammic function distinguishes it from standard Coptic letters. It is part of the Coptic Unicode block and is primarily of interest to scholars studying ancient cryptographic practices in Christian Egypt, as well as to typographers and paleographers working with historical Coptic manuscripts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2CED |
| Version Added | 5.2 |
| Name | Coptic Capital Letter Cryptogrammic Gangia |
| Block | Coptic |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ⳮ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ⳮ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0xB3 0xAD |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2CED |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002CED |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2ced |
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 | "ⳮ" U+2CEE Coptic Small Letter Cryptogrammic Gangia |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ⳮ" U+2CEE Coptic Small Letter Cryptogrammic Gangia |
| Simple Case Folding | "ⳮ" U+2CEE Coptic Small Letter Cryptogrammic Gangia |
| Case Folding | "ⳮ" U+2CEE Coptic Small Letter Cryptogrammic Gangia |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ⳮ" U+2CEE Coptic Small Letter Cryptogrammic Gangia |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ⳮ" U+2CEE Coptic Small Letter Cryptogrammic Gangia |
| 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 |