What ⲋ means
Coptic numerals use ⲋ for six, between the signs for five and seven. It marks a number, not a spoken sound.
Coptic writing adapted Greek for Egyptian and borrowed Demotic signs for sounds Greek lacked; Demotic was an older Egyptian script. Around 400 CE, Coptic was replacing older Egyptian scripts. Greek digamma was a sound-letter that also held the sixth numeral value; stigma later took that place, which Coptic sou preserves.
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Who writes ⲋ
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Don't confuse it with
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Related characters
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Questions people ask
1Why does ⲋ sometimes have a bar?
A bar can mark a Coptic numeral; above ⲋ it signals six. Bare ⲋ is the lowercase character form.
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How to type or find ⲋ
- Also called
- soou · soo
- Search it as
- sou · Coptic numeral six · Greek stigma · digamma
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
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HTML
ⲋCSS
\2C8BCodes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
ⲋ
HTML hex
ⲋ
CSS content
content: "\2C8B";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E2%B2%8B
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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.