U+03E7 "ϧ" Coptic Small Letter Khei Unicode Character

Unicode Version 18.0

ϧ
Source: Noto Sans Coptic Source: Browser Default

U+03E7 "ϧ" Coptic Small Letter Khei is a letter used in the Coptic alphabet, which was historically employed to write the Coptic language, the final stage of the Egyptian language. This character represents the sound "kh" or "χ" (a voiceless uvular fricative), similar to the "ch" in the Scottish word "loch". It is the lowercase form of the Coptic capital letter Khei, U+03E6, and is derived from the Greek letter Chi (Χ, χ) but with a distinctive hook or tilde on the right side of the vertical stroke. In modern usage, it appears in scholarly texts, liturgical contexts of the Coptic Orthodox Church, and digital fonts that support the Coptic script block.

General Properties

Code Point
U+03E7
Name
Coptic Small Letter Khei
Unicode 1.0 Name
Greek Small Letter Khei

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding
ϧ
HTML Hex Encoding
ϧ
UTF-8 Encoding
0xCF 0xA7
UTF-16 Encoding
0x03E7
UTF-32 Encoding
0x000003E7
C/C++/Java Escape
\u03e7