Qa (Cyrillic)
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Qa (Ԛ ԛ; italics: Ԛ ԛ) is a letter of the Cyrillic script. Its form is based on the Latin letter Q (Q q). Depending on the font, the uppercase form can look like a reversed Cyrillic letter Р.
Qa is used in the alphabet of the Kurdish language and in the old alphabet of the Abkhaz language. In both it represents the voiceless uvular plosive /q/.It was also used in the Old Alphabet of Ossetian language.
This character appeared in newspapers and articles such as 1955's Кӧрдо.
Computing codesEdit
Character | Ԛ | ԛ | ||
---|---|---|---|---|
Unicode name | CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER QA | CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER QA | ||
Encodings | decimal | hex | decimal | hex |
Unicode | 1306 | U+051A | 1307 | U+051B |
UTF-8 | 212 154 | D4 9A | 212 155 | D4 9B |
Numeric character reference | Ԛ | Ԛ | ԛ | ԛ |
See alsoEdit
Other Cyrillic letters used to write the sound /q/:
External linksEdit
- Everson, Michael; et al. (2007-03-21). "Proposal to encode additional Cyrillic characters in the BMP of the UCS" (pdf). Retrieved 2011-04-29.
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