U+0958 "क़" Devanagari Letter Qa Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
क़
U+0958 "क़" Devanagari Letter Qa is a modified consonant from the Devanagari script, representing a sound not native to classical Sanskrit but used primarily for transcribing the voiced uvular plosive /q/ from Persian, Arabic, and other languages into Hindi, Marathi, and Nepali. It is visually formed by adding a nuqta, a dot below the standard Devanagari letter क (ka), officially categorizing it as an extension of the basic Devanagari set for accurate representation of loanwords. This character allows writers to preserve the distinct pronunciation of foreign terms, such as in the Hindi word "क़िला" (qila, meaning fort), distinguishing it from the regular "क" sound.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0958 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Devanagari Letter Qa |
| Block | Devanagari |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "क" U+0915 Devanagari Letter Ka "़" U+093C Devanagari Sign Nukta |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | क़ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | क़ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xA5 0x98 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0958 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000958 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0958 |