U+024B Latin Small Letter Q with Hook Tail
U+024B was added in Unicode version 5.0 in 2006. It belongs to the block Latin Extended-B in the Basic Multilingual Plane.
This character is a Lowercase Letter and is mainly used in the Latin script. Its uppercase variant is Latin Capital Letter Small Q with Hook Tail and its titlecase variant is Latin Capital Letter Small Q with Hook Tail.
The glyph is not a composition. It has no designated width in East Asian texts. In bidirectional text it is written from left to right. When changing direction it is not mirrored. The word that U+024B forms with similar adjacent characters prevents a line break inside it. The glyph can be confused with one other glyph.
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 |
|---|---|
| Nº | 587 |
| UTF-8 | C9 8B |
| UTF-16 | 02 4B |
| UTF-32 | 00 00 02 4B |
| URL-Quoted | %C9%8B |
| HTML hex reference | ɋ |
| Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | É‹ |
| AGL: Latin-5 | uni024B |
Related Characters
Confusables
Elsewhere
Complete Record
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| 5.0 (2006) | |
| LATIN SMALL LETTER Q WITH HOOK TAIL | |
| — | |
| Latin Extended-B | |
| Lowercase Letter | |
| Latin | |
| Left To Right | |
| Not Reordered | |
| none | |
| Latin Small Letter Q with Hook Tail | |
| ✔ | |
| Latin Small Letter Q with Hook Tail | |
| Latin Small Letter Q with Hook Tail | |
| ✘ | |
| Latin Capital Letter Small Q with Hook Tail | |
| Latin Capital Letter Small Q with Hook Tail | |
| Latin Capital Letter Small Q with Hook Tail | |
| Latin Capital Letter Small Q with Hook Tail | |
| Latin Small Letter Q with Hook Tail | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Latin Small Letter Q with Hook Tail | |
| Any | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| ✘ | |
| None | |
| — | |
| NA | |
| Other | |
| — | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Yes | |
| Yes | |
| Latin Small Letter Q with Hook Tail | |
| Yes | |
| Latin Small Letter Q with Hook Tail | |
| Yes | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Lower | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Alphabetic Letter | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Latin Small Letter Q with Hook Tail | |
| None | |
| neutral | |
| Not Applicable | |
| — | |
| No_Joining_Group | |
| Non Joining | |
| Alphabetic | |
| none | |
| not a number | |
| Latin Small Letter Q with Hook Tail | |
| R |