U+2CED "" Coptic Capital Letter Cryptogrammic Gangia Unicode Character

Unicode Version 18.0

Source: Noto Sans Coptic Source: Browser Default

U+2CED "" Coptic Capital Letter Cryptogrammic Gangia is a rare glyph used in the Coptic script, specifically within the cryptographic tradition where letters were assigned alternative forms to encode secret messages or create esoteric religious texts. This character represents a variant of the letter "Gangia," which corresponds to the sound /g/ and is derived from the Coptic alphabet, though its cryptogrammic function distinguishes it from standard Coptic letters. It is part of the Coptic Unicode block and is primarily of interest to scholars studying ancient cryptographic practices in Christian Egypt, as well as to typographers and paleographers working with historical Coptic manuscripts.

General Properties

Code Point
U+2CED
Name
Coptic Capital Letter Cryptogrammic Gangia

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding
Ⳮ
HTML Hex Encoding
Ⳮ
UTF-8 Encoding
0xE2 0xB3 0xAD
UTF-16 Encoding
0x2CED
UTF-32 Encoding
0x00002CED
C/C++/Java Escape
\u2ced