What ⳕ means
It writes the Egyptian consonant ḥ, a deep, rough h-like sound. The letter appears in the Munich Papyrus, usually dated to the second century CE.
The “hat” in its scholarly name comes from Egyptian ḥꜣt, “wick”; it is not a picture of headwear.
Why add this sign to Coptic writing?
Old Coptic used extra signs for Egyptian sounds Greek letters could not write. Old Coptic is an early alphabetic way of writing Egyptian, based mainly on Greek letters and supplemented with signs borrowed from Demotic, a cursive Egyptian script. Its scripts were developed by the first century CE at the latest.
In later standard Coptic, ⳕ and this historical sound do not appear. Some Old Coptic texts use the letter for dialectal pronunciation or older spellings.
How do I type ⳕ?
In HTML, use ⳕ; in JavaScript or JSON, use \u2CD5. These escapes insert the character by code point in markup or string literals.
In the active font, ⳕ may appear as a box or replacement mark if the glyph is missing. A font with Coptic coverage can display it.
Specialist and archival; it belongs in historical or linguistic work on Egyptian and Old Coptic texts.
The name element “hat” reflects Egyptian ḥꜣt, “wick”; it is not a picture of headwear.
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Questions people ask
2Is “hat” part of the picture?
No. It reflects Egyptian ḥꜣt, “wick,” in the letter’s scholarly name; it does not describe headwear.
Why does ⳕ show as a box?
Font coverage is missing in the active font: the app substitutes a box or replacement mark. A font with Coptic coverage can display the letter.
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ⳕ\2CD5ⳕ in markup.\u2CD5 inside a JavaScript or JSON string.Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.