U+024B "ɋ" Latin Small Letter Q with Hook Tail Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ɋ
U+024B "ɋ" Latin Small Letter Q with Hook Tail is a typographic variant of the letter Q, distinguished by a hook attached to the lower right side of its tail, a design historically used in certain phonetic transcription systems and African orthographies. It was originally employed in the International Phonetic Alphabet to represent a voiced uvular plosive sound, though it has since been retired from the standard IPA in favor of the symbol "ɢ". Today, the character is primarily of interest to linguists, typeface designers, and scholars working with historical texts or specialized writing systems, and it remains encoded in Unicode to support digital representation of these rare but important linguistic notations.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+024B |
| Version Added | 5.0 |
| Name | Latin Small Letter Q with Hook Tail |
| Block | Latin Extended-B |
| General Category | Lowercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ɋ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ɋ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xC9 0x8B |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x024B |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000024B |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u024b |
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 |
| Lowercase | Yes |
| Simple Uppercase Code Point | "Ɋ" U+024A Latin Capital Letter Small Q with Hook Tail |
| Simple Titlecase Code Point | "Ɋ" U+024A Latin Capital Letter Small Q with Hook Tail |
| Uppercase Code Point | "Ɋ" U+024A Latin Capital Letter Small Q with Hook Tail |
| Titlecase Code Point | "Ɋ" U+024A Latin Capital Letter Small Q with Hook Tail |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Titlecased | Yes |
| Changes When Uppercased | Yes |
| 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 | Lower |