U+024A "Ɋ" Latin Capital Letter Small Q with Hook Tail Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
Ɋ
U+024A "Ɋ" Latin Capital Letter Small Q with Hook Tail is a rarely used typographic variant designed for phonetic transcription and certain African language orthographies, where it represents a distinct sound, typically a voiced uvular plosive or a similar back-of-the-throat consonant. Its appearance combines a standard capital Q with a small, hooked tail extending from the lower right of the bowl. This character is part of the Latin Extended-B block and serves as the uppercase counterpart to the lowercase "ɋ" (U+024B).
General Properties
| Code Point | U+024A |
| Version Added | 5.0 |
| Name | Latin Capital Letter Small Q with Hook Tail |
| Block | Latin Extended-B |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ɋ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ɋ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xC9 0x8A |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x024A |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000024A |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u024a |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFD Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKD Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Alphabetic |
| Uppercase | Yes |
| Simple Lowercase Code Point | "ɋ" U+024B Latin Small Letter Q with Hook Tail |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ɋ" U+024B Latin Small Letter Q with Hook Tail |
| Simple Case Folding | "ɋ" U+024B Latin Small Letter Q with Hook Tail |
| Case Folding | "ɋ" U+024B Latin Small Letter Q with Hook Tail |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ɋ" U+024B Latin Small Letter Q with Hook Tail |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ɋ" U+024B Latin Small Letter Q with Hook Tail |
| Script | Latin |
| Script Extensions | Latin |
| Indic Syllabic Category | Other |
| ID Start | Yes |
| XID Start | Yes |
| ID Continue | Yes |
| XID Continue | Yes |
| Alphabetic | Yes |
| Vertical Orientation | Rotated |
| Grapheme Base | Yes |
| Grapheme Cluster Break | Other |
| Word Break | Alphabetic letter |
| Sentence Break | Upper |