Coptic capital letter Khi

Ⲭ is the capital letter Khi in Coptic writing. In Sahidic, one Coptic variety, it appears mainly in Greek words. The related sign joins Khi and Ro; its reading depends on the whole mark and context.

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What Ⲭ means

Ⲭ is the Coptic capital letter Khi, adapted from Greek chi. Writing Egyptian with Greek letters began after Alexander the Great's conquest of Egypt, toward the end of the fourth century BCE; earlier Old Coptic experiments came before the standardized script.

Demotic, an older Egyptian script, supplied extra signs for sounds Greek lacked. Christian Egyptians used Coptic for scripture and other religious texts; private documents survive.

Part of the collection

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Coptic Alphabet & Letters

Who writes Ⲭ

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Don't confuse it with

Greek Capital Letter Chi

Questions people ask

Why does Ⲭ show as a box on some devices?

Because that device's fonts have no glyph for it. The character is still correct and still copies correctly — the box is a missing glyph, not a broken character.