U+2C8A "Ⲋ" Coptic Capital Letter Sou Unicode Character

U+2C8A "Ⲋ" Coptic Capital Letter Sou is a glyph used in the Coptic script, representing the uppercase form of the letter "sou," which corresponds to the sound /ʃ/ (like the "sh" in "ship"). This character is part of the Coptic block of Unicode, which was added to support the liturgical and scholarly needs of the Coptic language, the final stage of the ancient Egyptian language written with the Coptic alphabet. The "sou" letter is derived from the Demotic script and is notably distinct from the Greek-derived letters that also appear in the Coptic alphabet, reflecting the language's unique phonetic inventory. Its use is primarily found in religious texts, historical manuscripts, and modern linguistic studies of Coptic.