U+2CFB "⳻" Coptic Old Nubian Indirect Question Mark Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
⳻
U+2CFB "⳻" Coptic Old Nubian Indirect Question Mark is a punctuation mark used in the Old Nubian script, an early writing system for the Nubian language that employed a modified version of the Coptic alphabet with additional letters. This specific character, shaped like a diagonal rising stroke with a dot above and below, was employed primarily in manuscripts to indicate an indirect or rhetorical question, distinguishing it from direct interrogatives. Its inclusion in Unicode allows for the accurate digital representation and study of historical texts from medieval Nubia, preserving a subtle grammatical nuance that aids scholars in understanding the syntax and literary style of the period.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2CFB |
| Version Added | 4.1 |
| Name | Coptic Old Nubian Indirect Question Mark |
| 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 0xBB |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2CFB |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002CFB |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2cfb |