Q with hook tail
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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.[1] It is still used in the Kâte language to represent a voiced labial-velar plosive /ɡ͡b/. (Latin Q is voiceless /k͡p/) The Bargam language also uses it to represent the glottal stop.[2] 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.[citation needed]
Despite the name, the uppercase glyph itself resembles more the letter latin alpha (Ɑ) than Q.
Computing codes
Preview | Ɋ | ɋ | ||
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Unicode name | LATIN CAPITAL LETTER SMALL Q WITH HOOK TAIL | LATIN SMALL LETTER Q WITH HOOK TAIL | ||
Encodings | decimal | hex | dec | hex |
Unicode | 586 | U+024A | 587 | U+024B |
UTF-8 | 201 138 | C9 8A | 201 139 | C9 8B |
Numeric character reference | Ɋ | Ɋ | ɋ | ɋ |
References
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- History
- Spread
- Romanization
- Roman numerals
- Ligatures
Letters of the ISO basic Latin alphabet | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Aa | Bb | Cc | Dd | Ee | Ff | Gg | Hh | Ii | Jj | Kk | Ll | Mm | Nn | Oo | Pp | Rr | Ss | Tt | Uu | Vv | Ww | Xx | Yy | Zz | |
Letter Q with diacritics | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Ꝗꝗ | Ꝙꝙ | ɋ | ʠ | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Letters using hook or tail ( ◌̡, ◌̢ ) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
ᶏ | Ɓɓ | Ꞗꞗ | ᶀ | Ƈƈ | ɕ | 𝼏 | 𝼝 | Ꞔꞔ | Ɗɗ | ȡ | ᶁ | ᶑ | 𝼥 | ᶒ | ⱸ | ꬴ | Ƒƒ | ᶂ | Ɠɠ | ᶃ | ꬶ | Ɦɦ | Ꜧꜧ | ꞕ | |
ʮ | ᶖ | Ʝʝ | Ƙƙ | ᶄ | ȴ | ɭ | ᶅ | 𝼑 | 𝼦 | Ɱɱ | ᶆ | ꬺ | Ɲɲ | ȵ | ɳ | ᶇ | 𝼔 | 𝼧 | ꬻ | ꬼ | Ꝍꝍ | 𝼛 | Ƥƥ | Ꝓꝓ | Ꝕꝕ |
ᶈ | ʠ | Ɽɽ | ᶉ | 𝼨 | ꭉ | 𝼞 | 𝼩 | Ȿȿ | Ʂʂ | ᶊ | Ƭƭ | Ʈʈ | ȶ | 𝼪 | ᶙ | ꭒ | Ʋʋ | ᶌ | ⱱ | ⱴ | Ⱳⱳ | ᶍ | Ƴƴ | Ỿỿ | Ȥȥ |
Ɀɀ | ʐ | ʑ | Ᶎᶎ |
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- ISO/IEC 646
- Unicode
- Western Latin character sets
- DIN 91379: Unicode subset for Europe
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