U+2CFA "⳺" Coptic Old Nubian Direct Question Mark Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
U+2CFA "⳺" Coptic Old Nubian Direct Question Mark is a punctuation mark used in the Old Nubian script, which was employed to write the Nubian language from the 8th to the 15th century CE, primarily in the medieval kingdoms of Nobatia and Makuria along the Nile in present-day Sudan. This specific mark indicates a direct question, distinguishing it from indirect interrogatives or other sentence types, and it visually resembles a stylized backward or reversed question mark, reflecting the unique orthographic traditions of the Coptic-derived Old Nubian alphabet. Its inclusion in Unicode supports the digital preservation and study of historical Nubian texts, helping scholars and linguists accurately represent ancient manuscripts that contain direct queries.
General Properties
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding |
⳺ |
| HTML Hex Encoding |
⳺ |
| UTF-8 Encoding |
0xE2 0xB3 0xBA |
| UTF-16 Encoding |
0x2CFA |
| UTF-32 Encoding |
0x00002CFA |
| C/C++/Java Escape |
\u2cfa |
Unicode Properties