Coptic Capital Shima

Ϭ is a capital letter used to write Coptic, a later form of Egyptian. Coptic writing combines Greek letters with signs from Demotic, an earlier Egyptian script. If sent alone, read it as a letter and use the surrounding message to infer the sender's intent.

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What Ϭ means

It represents a speech sound inside Coptic words. This is the capital form of the letter.

Coptic is a later written form of Egyptian. Its alphabet adapted Greek letters and added signs from Demotic, the last major Egyptian script before Coptic, for sounds Greek lacked. Greek letters appeared in short notes for Egyptian words during the first and second centuries CE; a more settled alphabet took shape around the turn of the third century CE. Coptic texts served in records, Christian writing and worship, letters, and schools.

Historical and language-specific; it belongs in Coptic writing or discussion of the script.

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Coptic Alphabet & Letters

Who writes Ϭ

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Don't confuse it with

Latin Capital Letter C

Latin capital C is a different letter. It may resemble Ϭ in some fonts, but it does not belong in Coptic spelling.

Questions people ask

Why does Ϭ 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.