What ⲿ means
ⲿ is the Old Coptic Oou letter used to write Egyptian.
Old Coptic writing had developed by the 1st century CE at latest as a family of related scripts.
Greek letters supplied the main alphabet; signs from Demotic, an older Egyptian script, covered sounds Greek letters did not. Later standardized Coptic used a narrower set, placing ⲿ in the earlier spelling tradition.
Who writes ⲿ
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Don't confuse it with
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Questions people ask
1Why does ⲿ 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.
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How to type or find ⲿ
- Search it as
- Coptic letter ⲿ · Coptic Oou · Coptic Unicode input · Old Coptic alphabet
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
macOS
HTML
ⲿCSS
\2CBFUnicode Coptic input
Use a Unicode-aware Coptic keyboard or character picker and choose Old Coptic Oou. Greek and standard Coptic lookalikes have separate code points; a font without Coptic support may display an empty box.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
ⲿ
HTML hex
ⲿ
CSS content
content: "\2CBF";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E2%B2%BF
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On screen
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Code points
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JS .length
3
UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.