U+024A Latin Capital Letter Small Q with Hook Tail
U+024A was added to Unicode in version 5.0 (2006). It belongs to the block
This character is a Uppercase Letter and is mainly used in the Latin script. It is related to its lowercase variant
The glyph is not a composition. It has a Neutral East Asian Width. In bidirectional context it acts as Left To Right and is not mirrored. In text U+024A behaves as Alphabetic regarding line breaks. It has type Upper for sentence and Alphabetic Letter for word breaks. The Grapheme Cluster Break is Any.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
Q with hook tail (majuscule: Ɋ, minuscule: ɋ) is a letter of the extended Latin alphabet. It was introduced by Lutheran missionaries in Papua New Guinea for use in the Numanggang language in the 1930s or 1940s. In 2002, it was decided to discontinue using the letter. It is still used in the Kâte language to represent a voiced labial-velar plosive /ɡ͡b/. (Latin Q is voiceless /k͡p/)
In some forms of handwriting for English (and presumably other languages based on the Latin alphabet), lowercase q always has a hook tail. This is particularly evident in geometric sans-serif typefaces used to teach children how to write.
Despite the name, the uppercase glyph itself resembles more the letter latin alpha (Ɑ) than Q.
Representations
System | Representation |
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Nº | 586 |
UTF-8 | C9 8A |
UTF-16 | 02 4A |
UTF-32 | 00 00 02 4A |
URL-Quoted | %C9%8A |
HTML hex reference | Ɋ |
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | ÉŠ |
AGL: Latin-5 | uni024A |
Related Characters
Elsewhere
Complete Record
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5.0 (2006) | |
LATIN CAPITAL LETTER SMALL Q WITH HOOK TAIL | |
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Latin Extended-B | |
Uppercase Letter | |
Latin | |
Left To Right | |
Not Reordered | |
None | |
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✘ | |
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✘ | |
✔ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✔ | |
✔ | |
✔ | |
✔ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✔ | |
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✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
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Any | |
✔ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✔ | |
✔ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
0 | |
0 | |
0 | |
✘ | |
None | |
— | |
NA | |
Other | |
— | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
Yes | |
Yes | |
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Yes | |
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Yes | |
✘ | |
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✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
Upper | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
Alphabetic Letter | |
✘ | |
✔ | |
✔ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
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None | |
Neutral | |
Not Applicable | |
— | |
No_Joining_Group | |
Non Joining | |
Alphabetic | |
None | |
not a number | |
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R |