Coptic Small Letter Old Nubian Nyi

Group: World scripts

Keywords

scripts

About this character

Coptic Small Letter Old Nubian Nyi belongs to the World scripts group and is encoded at U+2CE1. It was added in Unicode 0.0.

Shortcode

Chat apps such as Slack, Discord and GitHub accept this shortcode instead of the character itself.

Technical codes

Code point: U+2CE1
Hex: 2CE1
Decimal: 11489
HTML: ⳡ
CSS: \2CE1
JavaScript: \u2CE1
Python: \u2CE1
UTF-8: E2 B3 A1

The same character is drawn differently by each operating system and font.

Questions

Why does this emoji look different on my phone?

Unicode standardises the meaning of a character, not its drawing. Apple, Google, Microsoft and Samsung each ship their own artwork, so the same code point changes shape between devices.

Does copying work everywhere?

The character is copied as plain text, so it pastes into any app that accepts text. If the receiving app has no font for it, you will see an empty box instead.