U+03ED "ϭ" Coptic Small Letter Shima Unicode Character
Unicode Version 18.0
Source: Browser Default
U+03ED "ϭ" Coptic Small Letter Shima is a glyph used in the Coptic alphabet, primarily for writing the Coptic language, the final stage of ancient Egyptian. It represents a specific consonantal sound, often transliterated as "sh" or "š", and its shape is derived from the Demotic script. This character is part of the Coptic script block in Unicode, which was included to support liturgical and scholarly texts, allowing for the accurate digital representation of Coptic manuscripts and religious literature.
General Properties
Code Point
U+03ED
Name
Coptic Small Letter Shima
Unicode 1.0 Name
Greek Small Letter Shima
Encodings
HTML Decimal Encoding
ϭ
HTML Hex Encoding
ϭ
UTF-8 Encoding
0xCF 0xAD
UTF-16 Encoding
0x03ED
UTF-32 Encoding
0x000003ED
C/C++/Java Escape
\u03ed
Unicode Properties
Numeric Value
NaN
Simple Uppercase Code Point
Simple Titlecase Code Point
Uppercase Code Point
Titlecase Code Point
Script Extensions
Coptic