U+2CB6 "Ⲷ" Coptic Capital Letter Cryptogrammic Eie Unicode Character
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U+2CB6 "Ⲷ" Coptic Capital Letter Cryptogrammic Eie is a specialized letter used in the Coptic alphabet, primarily for cryptographic or esoteric writing systems rather than standard liturgical texts. It represents a variant form of the letter Eie, which corresponds to the sound /iː/ or /eː/, and its cryptogrammic nature suggests it was employed in encoded or secretive Coptic manuscripts to obscure meanings or to serve magical or liturgical puzzles. This character is part of the Unicode block reserved for Coptic script, ensuring its digital preservation for scholarly study of ancient Egyptian Christian texts and linguistic cryptography.
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General Properties
Code Point
U+2CB6
Name
Coptic Capital Letter Cryptogrammic Eie
Encodings
HTML Decimal Encoding
Ⲷ
HTML Hex Encoding
Ⲷ
UTF-8 Encoding
0xE2 0xB2 0xB6
UTF-16 Encoding
0x2CB6
UTF-32 Encoding
0x00002CB6
C/C++/Java Escape
\u2cb6
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