What Ⳇ means
It represents “sh,” as in English ship. Old Coptic combined Greek letters with Demotic signs, an Egyptian script, to write sounds Greek letters did not represent.
The Schmidt Papyrus, one of the oldest surviving Old Coptic texts, preserves Ⳇ in a religious petition to Osiris around 100 CE. The sign’s graphic source remains uncertain. Standard Coptic later uses ϣ for the same sound.
Who writes Ⳇ
Loading…
Don't confuse it with
1
Questions people ask
1Why does Ⳇ 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.
More like this
9
How to type or find Ⳇ
- Search it as
- old coptic sh · coptic esh · coptic esh vs shei · coptic sh letter · demotic signs · Schmidt Papyrus letter
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
macOS
HTML
ⳆCSS
\2CC6Unicode Coptic input
Use a Unicode Coptic keyboard or character picker, with a font that supports the character. Legacy ASCII fonts can make stored text and its display disagree.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
Ⳇ
HTML hex
Ⳇ
CSS content
content: "\2CC6";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E2%B3%86
1
On screen
1
Code points
1
JS .length
3
UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.