Coptic Capital Letter Oou

Ⲱ is the Coptic Oou, a vowel used inside words. Coptic writing pairs Greek letters with earlier Egyptian signs. Its reading varies by dialect and period.

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What Ⲱ means

It is a Coptic vowel used inside words. Also called Coptic omega, it is transliterated as Ô. Readings differ in Sahidic and Bohairic (Coptic dialects) and later traditions.

Old Coptic, an early Egyptian writing system, paired Greek letters with Demotic signs (from an older Egyptian script) for sounds Greek lacked. It served pronunciation glosses, ritual formulas, technical texts, and labels by the first century CE at latest. Standard Coptic grew from related forms in the fourth century, especially in Christian writing.

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Who writes Ⲱ

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Don't confuse it with

Greek Capital Letter Omega

Greek omega is historically related to Ⲱ but is a separate character; substituting it changes the text.

Questions people ask

Why does Ⲱ 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.