Coptic Small Letter Shei
Part of Greek Letters
Coptic Small Letter Shei has no standard Windows Alt code. Copy the character directly, or use its HTML entity or Unicode value instead.
- Alt code
- None
- HTML entity
- ϣ
- Unicode
- U+03E3
About this symbol
Shei is one of the letters Coptic took from Demotic, the everyday script of late ancient Egypt, for sounds Greek had no letter for. It stands for sh. Coptic is the last stage of the Egyptian language, written in a Greek-based alphabet from approximately the third century.
Unicode facts
- Official name
- COPTIC SMALL LETTER SHEI
- Type
- Lowercase letter
- Unicode block
- Greek and Coptic
- Unicode group
- Coptic letters derived from Demotic
- Added in
- Unicode 1.1 (1993)
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