What ⳇ means
It is an early Coptic letter for the “sh” sound.
Old Coptic writing adapted Greek-based letters to write Egyptian, adding signs for sounds that Greek letters did not cover. The Schmidt Papyrus, one of the oldest Old Coptic texts, is a prayer dated around 100 AD.
Old Coptic also used ⳅ as another spelling for this sound. Fonts can draw Coptic letters differently, and older documents may rely on legacy encodings that reading software must support.
Who writes ⳇ
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Don't confuse it with
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Solidus
Plain ASCII slash. Unicode lists Old Coptic Esh as a confusable of slash; in text, a slash can be typed or pasted where this letter belongs, and vice versa.
Division Slash
Division slash, a math symbol. Unicode lists it as a confusable of Old Coptic Esh; it looks like a slash but is a different character.
Ⳇ
Coptic Capital Letter Old Coptic Esh
Coptic capital letter Old Coptic Esh, the uppercase partner of this letter. Unicode lists the two as confusables; they differ only by case.
Related characters
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Questions people ask
1Is ⳇ an emoji?
No. It is an alphabetic letter used to write a sound in Old Coptic texts, rather than a reaction symbol.
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How to type or find ⳇ
- Search it as
- esh · sh · old coptic · coptic letter · Schmidt Papyrus
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
macOS
HTML
ⳇCSS
\2CC7Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
ⳇ
HTML hex
ⳇ
CSS content
content: "\2CC7";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E2%B3%87
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On screen
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Code points
1
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.