U+2CF1 "⳱" Coptic Combining Spiritus Lenis Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
⳱
U+2CF1 "⳱" Coptic Combining Spiritus Lenis is a diacritical mark used in the Coptic script to indicate a light or smooth breathing, similar to the Greek spiritus lenis, placed above a vowel or consonant to modify its phonetic value in liturgical and scholarly texts. This combining character attaches to the preceding base letter, helping to accurately represent the pronunciation of Coptic words as transcribed from earlier stages of the language. Its inclusion in Unicode supports the digital preservation and typographic rendering of historical Coptic manuscripts, particularly those from the Sahidic and Bohairic dialects.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2CF1 |
| Version Added | 5.2 |
| Name | Coptic Combining Spiritus Lenis |
| Block | Coptic |
| General Category | Nonspacing Mark |
| Canonical Combining Class | Above |
| Bidirectional Class | Nonspacing Mark |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ⳱ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ⳱ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0xB3 0xB1 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2CF1 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002CF1 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2cf1 |