U+051B "ԛ" Cyrillic Small Letter Qa Unicode Character

U+051B "ԛ" Cyrillic Small Letter Qa is a rarely used letter in the Cyrillic script, primarily employed in historical or linguistic transcriptions of certain Caucasian languages, such as Abkhaz. It represents a voiceless uvular plosive sound, similar to a hard "q" in Arabic, and is the lowercase counterpart of the capital letter "Ԛ". Part of the Cyrillic Extended-A block, this character was added to Unicode to support the accurate digital representation of old or minor Cyrillic-based alphabets, helping to preserve linguistic diversity in modern text encoding.

General Properties

Code Point	U+051B
Version Added	5.1
Name	Cyrillic Small Letter Qa
Block	Cyrillic Supplement
General Category	Lowercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ԛ
HTML Hex Encoding	ԛ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xD4 0x9B
UTF-16 Encoding	0x051B
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000051B
C/C++/Java Escape	\u051b

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	"Ԛ" U+051A Cyrillic Capital Letter Qa
Simple Titlecase Code Point	"Ԛ" U+051A Cyrillic Capital Letter Qa
Uppercase Code Point	"Ԛ" U+051A Cyrillic Capital Letter Qa
Titlecase Code Point	"Ԛ" U+051A Cyrillic Capital Letter Qa
Cased	Yes
Changes When Casemapped	Yes
Changes When Titlecased	Yes
Changes When Uppercased	Yes
Script	Cyrillic
Script Extensions	Cyrillic
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