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Glyph for U+03E8
Source: Noto Sans Coptic

U+03E8 Coptic Capital Letter Hori

U+03E8 was added to Unicode in version 1.1 (1993). It belongs to the block U+0370 to U+03FF Greek and Coptic in the U+0000 to U+FFFF Basic Multilingual Plane.

This character is a Uppercase Letter and is mainly used in the Coptic script. It is related to its lowercase variant Glyph for U+03E9 Coptic Small Letter Hori.

The glyph is not a composition. It has a Neutral East Asian Width. In bidirectional context it acts as Left To Right and is not mirrored. The glyph can, under circumstances, be confused with 1 other glyphs. In text U+03E8 behaves as Alphabetic regarding line breaks. It has type Upper for sentence and Alphabetic Letter for word breaks. The Grapheme Cluster Break is Any.

The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:

The Coptic script is the script used for writing the Coptic language, the latest stage of Egyptian. The repertoire of glyphs is based on the uncial Greek alphabet, augmented by letters borrowed from the Egyptian Demotic. It was the first alphabetic script used for the Egyptian language. There are several Coptic alphabets, as the script varies greatly among the various dialects and eras of the Coptic language.

Representations

System Representation
1000
UTF-8 CF A8
UTF-16 03 E8
UTF-32 00 00 03 E8
URL-Quoted %CF%A8
HTML hex reference Ϩ
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake Ϩ
Adobe Glyph List Horicoptic

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Property Value
Age 1.1 (1993)
Unicode Name COPTIC CAPITAL LETTER HORI
Unicode 1 Name GREEK CAPITAL LETTER HORI
Block Greek and Coptic
General Category Uppercase Letter
Script Coptic
Bidirectional Category Left To Right
Combining Class Not Reordered
Decomposition Type None
Decomposition Mapping Glyph for U+03E8 Coptic Capital Letter Hori
Lowercase
Simple Lowercase Mapping Glyph for U+03E9 Coptic Small Letter Hori
Lowercase Mapping Glyph for U+03E9 Coptic Small Letter Hori
Uppercase
Simple Uppercase Mapping Glyph for U+03E8 Coptic Capital Letter Hori
Uppercase Mapping Glyph for U+03E8 Coptic Capital Letter Hori
Simple Titlecase Mapping Glyph for U+03E8 Coptic Capital Letter Hori
Titlecase Mapping Glyph for U+03E8 Coptic Capital Letter Hori
Case Folding Glyph for U+03E9 Coptic Small Letter Hori
ASCII Hex Digit
Alphabetic
Bidi Control
Bidi Mirrored
Composition Exclusion
Case Ignorable
Changes When Casefolded
Changes When Casemapped
Changes When NFKC Casefolded
Changes When Lowercased
Changes When Titlecased
Changes When Uppercased
Cased
Full Composition Exclusion
Default Ignorable Code Point
Dash
Deprecated
Diacritic
Emoji Modifier Base
Emoji Component
Emoji Modifier
Emoji Presentation
Emoji
Extender
Extended Pictographic
FC NFKC Closure Glyph for U+03E8 Coptic Capital Letter Hori
Grapheme Cluster Break Any
Grapheme Base
Grapheme Extend
Grapheme Link
Hex Digit
Hyphen
ID Continue
ID Start
IDS Binary Operator
IDS Trinary Operator and
IDSU 0
ID_Compat_Math_Continue 0
ID_Compat_Math_Start 0
Ideographic
InCB None
Indic Mantra Category
Indic Positional Category NA
Indic Syllabic Category Other
Jamo Short Name
Join Control
Logical Order Exception
Math
Noncharacter Code Point
NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Casefold Glyph for U+03E9 Coptic Small Letter Hori
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKC_SCF Glyph for U+03E9 Coptic Small Letter Hori
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Other Alphabetic
Other Default Ignorable Code Point
Other Grapheme Extend
Other ID Continue
Other ID Start
Other Lowercase
Other Math
Other Uppercase
Prepended Concatenation Mark
Pattern Syntax
Pattern White Space
Quotation Mark
Regional Indicator
Radical
Sentence Break Upper
Soft Dotted
Sentence Terminal
Terminal Punctuation
Unified Ideograph
Variation Selector
Word Break Alphabetic Letter
White Space
XID Continue
XID Start
Expands On NFC
Expands On NFD
Expands On NFKC
Expands On NFKD
Bidi Paired Bracket Glyph for U+03E8 Coptic Capital Letter Hori
Bidi Paired Bracket Type None
East Asian Width Neutral
Hangul Syllable Type Not Applicable
ISO 10646 Comment
Joining Group No_Joining_Group
Joining Type Non Joining
Line Break Alphabetic
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value not a number
Simple Case Folding Glyph for U+03E9 Coptic Small Letter Hori
Script Extension
Vertical Orientation R