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, with the lowercase form also resembling a reversed Cyrillic letter Р.
Qa is used in the alphabet of the Kurdish language, where it represents the voiceless uvular plosive /q/. It was also used to represent /q’/, the uvular ejective stop (now represented by Ҟ ҟ), in the Translation Committee's Abkhaz alphabet,[1] published around the turn of the 20th century, and to represent /q/ in three old Ossetian alphabets (now represented by Хь хъ).
This character appeared in newspapers and articles such as 1955's Кӧрдо.[citation needed]
The letter was also used in the scrapped version of the Azerbaijani alphabet.[citation needed] It was, however, eliminated and replaced by Ҝ in Dagestan.
Computing codes
| Preview | Ԛ | ԛ | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unicode name | CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER QA | CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER QA | ||
| Encodings | decimal | hex | dec | 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 also
Other Cyrillic letters used to write the sound /q/:
- Қ қ : Cyrillic letter Ka with descender
- Ӄ ӄ : Cyrillic letter Ka with hook
- Ҡ ҡ : Cyrillic letter Bashkir Qa
- Ԟ ԟ : Cyrillic letter Aleut Ka
- Cyrillic characters in Unicode
References
- ^ Everson, M; Birnbaum, D; Cleminson, R; Derzhanski, I; Dorosh, V; Kryukov, A; Paliga, S; Ruppel, K (2007). "Proposal to encode additional Cyrillic characters in the BMP of the UCS" (PDF). Unicode.
External links
- 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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