What ϥ means
In Sahidic Coptic, ϥ writes the f sound. In early Old Coptic—early efforts to write Egyptian with Greek letters—fei appears among signs retained in standard Coptic.
The main alphabet came from Greek. Extra letters drawn from Demotic, an older Egyptian script, represented Egyptian sounds Greek did not express cleanly.
Coptic dialects could vary in letter and sound choices. The language later became chiefly liturgical, maintained in worship by Coptic Christians.
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Who writes ϥ
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Don't confuse it with
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Questions people ask
1Why does Coptic fei look different in fonts?
Sahidic and Bohairic are distinct Coptic writing traditions. Older Unicode charts used Bohairic styles for these letters before later standardization.
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How to type or find ϥ
- Also called
- fai · fei · Coptic f
- Search it as
- Coptic letter f
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
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Windows
HTML
ϥCSS
\03E5How to type Coptic fei
Use your editor's Unicode input method for U03E5; a Coptic-capable font is needed to display it.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
ϥ
HTML hex
ϥ
CSS content
content: "\03E5";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%CF%A5
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On screen
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Code points
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JS .length
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UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.