U+03E6 "Ϧ" Coptic Capital Letter Khei Unicode Character

Unicode Version 18.0

Ϧ
Source: Noto Sans Coptic Source: Browser Default

U+03E6 "Ϧ" Coptic Capital Letter Khei is a letter used in the Coptic alphabet, which is derived from the Greek alphabet with additional characters for sounds unique to the Egyptian language. This specific glyph represents the voiceless uvular fricative or a similar back-of-the-throat sound, often transliterated as "kh" or "x" in scholarly works, and corresponds to the 26th letter of the standard Coptic alphabet called "Khei" or "Ḫe". It appears primarily in liturgical and historical Coptic texts, serving as an essential component for accurately preserving the pronunciation of ancient Egyptian words within Christian religious manuscripts.

General Properties

Code Point
U+03E6
Name
Coptic Capital Letter Khei
Unicode 1.0 Name
Greek Capital Letter Khei

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding
Ϧ
HTML Hex Encoding
Ϧ
UTF-8 Encoding
0xCF 0xA6
UTF-16 Encoding
0x03E6
UTF-32 Encoding
0x000003E6
C/C++/Java Escape
\u03e6