U+03EC COPTIC CAPITAL LETTER SHIMA

The Unicode character U+03EC, officially named COPTIC CAPITAL LETTER SHIMA, was introduced in Unicode version 1.1. It is part of the Greek block, which belongs to the Basic Multilingual plane. Previously, it was also referred to as GREEK CAPITAL LETTER SHIMA.

Categorized technically as a Uppercase Letter, this character typically falls under the Copt script. In terms of text layout and rendering, the glyph is not a composition and has no designated width in East Asian typography. When placed in bidirectional text, it behaves as an Left-To-Right character. Its visual representation remains not mirrored regardless of the reading direction.