U+2C81 "ⲁ" Coptic Small Letter Alfa Unicode Character

U+2C81 "ⲁ" Coptic Small Letter Alfa is a glyph used in the Coptic script, originating from the Greek letter Alpha and representing the sound /a/. It is part of the Coptic Unicode block, which was added to support the liturgical and literary texts of the Coptic language, the final stage of ancient Egyptian written in an alphabet adapted from Greek. This specific character, the lowercase form of its uppercase counterpart U+2C80, appears in manuscripts and modern digital representations of Coptic, distinguishing it from the visually similar Greek Alpha by its distinctive calligraphic shape, often featuring a slight loop or curved stroke at the top.