U+03E3 "ϣ" Coptic Small Letter Shei Unicode Character

Unicode Version 18.0

ϣ
Source: Noto Sans Coptic Source: Browser Default

U+03E3 "ϣ" Coptic Small Letter Shei is a letter from the Coptic alphabet, representing the sound "sh" as in the English word "ship." It is used in the Coptic language, the final stage of the ancient Egyptian language written primarily in the Coptic script, which incorporates Greek letters alongside additional characters like Shei to capture distinctive Egyptian phonemes. This character corresponds to the uppercase form U+03E2 "Ϣ" and is a key element in liturgical and scholarly texts, helping preserve the linguistic heritage of Christian Egypt.

General Properties

Code Point
U+03E3
Name
Coptic Small Letter Shei
Unicode 1.0 Name
Greek Small Letter Shei

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding
ϣ
HTML Hex Encoding
ϣ
UTF-8 Encoding
0xCF 0xA3
UTF-16 Encoding
0x03E3
UTF-32 Encoding
0x000003E3
C/C++/Java Escape
\u03e3