U+2CF9 "⳹" Coptic Old Nubian Full Stop Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
⳹
U+2CF9 "⳹" Coptic Old Nubian Full Stop is a punctuation mark used in the Coptic script specifically for writing the Old Nubian language, which was spoken in medieval Nubia (present day Sudan and southern Egypt). It functions as a sentence ending delimiter, similar to a period or full stop in modern English, and appears as a distinctive vertical stack of three dots or small circles. This character was encoded in Unicode version 4.1 in 2005 as part of the Coptic block, reflecting efforts to preserve and digitally represent ancient Afro Asiatic scripts. Its usage is largely confined to scholarly and liturgical texts, where it helps structure the flow of Old Nubian manuscripts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2CF9 |
| Version Added | 4.1 |
| Name | Coptic Old Nubian Full Stop |
| Block | Coptic |
| General Category | Other Punctuation |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ⳹ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ⳹ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0xB3 0xB9 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2CF9 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002CF9 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2cf9 |