U+03E3 "ϣ" Coptic Small Letter Shei Unicode Character
Unicode Version 18.0
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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
Unicode Properties
Numeric Value
NaN
Simple Uppercase Code Point
Simple Titlecase Code Point
Uppercase Code Point
Titlecase Code Point
Script Extensions
Coptic