U+2CC3 "" Coptic Small Letter Crossed Shei Unicode Character

Unicode Version 18.0

Source: Noto Sans Coptic Source: Browser Default

U+2CC3 "" Coptic Small Letter Crossed Shei is a distinctive letter from the Coptic alphabet, which was used for writing the Coptic language, the final stage of the ancient Egyptian language. This character is a variant of the standard Coptic letter Shei, distinguished by a horizontal stroke or crossbar crossing its upper portion, which likely served to indicate a specific phonetic value or a unique scribal variation. It belongs to the Coptic block of Unicode and represents one of the more specialized characters within the script, primarily utilized in historical and liturgical texts.

General Properties

Code Point
U+2CC3
Name
Coptic Small Letter Crossed Shei

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding
ⳃ
HTML Hex Encoding
ⳃ
UTF-8 Encoding
0xE2 0xB3 0x83
UTF-16 Encoding
0x2CC3
UTF-32 Encoding
0x00002CC3
C/C++/Java Escape
\u2cc3