U+2C88 "Ⲉ" Coptic Capital Letter Eie Unicode Character
Unicode Version 18.0
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U+2C88 "Ⲉ" Coptic Capital Letter Eie is a glyph from the Coptic script, representing a vowel sound used in the Coptic language, the final stage of ancient Egyptian written in a modified Greek alphabet with added Demotic-derived letters. Its shape resembles a Latin capital letter H with a crossbar, but it functions as the uppercase form of the letter eie, pronounced as a long "e" or "i" in Coptic liturgical and scholarly contexts. This character is part of the Coptic Unicode block, enabling digital representation of historical and religious texts from early Christian Egypt, aiding preservation of Coptic literature and identity.
General Properties
Code Point
U+2C88
Name
Coptic Capital Letter Eie
Encodings
HTML Decimal Encoding
Ⲉ
HTML Hex Encoding
Ⲉ
UTF-8 Encoding
0xE2 0xB2 0x88
UTF-16 Encoding
0x2C88
UTF-32 Encoding
0x00002C88
C/C++/Java Escape
\u2c88
Unicode Properties
Numeric Value
NaN
Simple Lowercase Code Point
Lowercase Code Point
Simple Case Folding
Case Folding
NFKC Casefold
NFKC Simple Casefold
Script Extensions
Coptic