U+1048E "𐒎" Osmanya Letter Qaaf Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐒎
U+1048E "𐒎" Osmanya Letter Qaaf is a script symbol from the Osmanya alphabet, which was invented in the 1920s by Osman Yusuf Kenadid for writing the Somali language. This specific letter represents the voiced uvular stop sound /q/, similar to the Arabic letter ق (qāf), and it is part of a set of characters encoded in the Unicode Standard's Osmanya block (U+10480 to U+104AF). The Osmanya script, which was designed to replace the Arabic script for Somali, is written from left to right and features a distinct, cursive style, and while it saw limited adoption historically, it remains a significant part of Somali cultural heritage and is used in some contemporary contexts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1048E |
| Version Added | 4.0 |
| Name | Osmanya Letter Qaaf |
| Block | Osmanya |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐒎 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐒎 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0x92 0x8E |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD801 0xDC8E |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001048E |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud801\udc8e |