U+10E9C "𐺜" Yezidi Letter Qaf Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐺜
U+10E9C "𐺜" Yezidi Letter Qaf is a character in the Yezidi script, representing the sound equivalent to the letter "Q" and is used in writing the Kurmanji dialect of Kurdish as employed by the Yezidi religious community. It was added to the Unicode Standard in version 13.0, released in 2020, as part of the broader effort to encode the Yezidi alphabet, which was developed to preserve and transcribe the liturgical and everyday language of the Yezidi people. This letter specifically corresponds to the voiceless uvular plosive sound, an important phonetic element in the Yezidi language, and its inclusion aids in the accurate digital representation of their texts and cultural heritage.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+10E9C |
| Version Added | 13.0 |
| Name | Yezidi Letter Qaf |
| Block | Yezidi |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Right To Left |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐺜 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐺜 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0xBA 0x9C |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD803 0xDE9C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00010E9C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud803\ude9c |