U+1B8B "ᮋ" Sundanese Letter Qa Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+1B8B "ᮋ" Sundanese Letter Qa is a letter from the Sundanese script, used to write the Sundanese language of West Java, Indonesia, and it represents the sound /q/, a voiceless uvular plosive. This character is part of the Sundanese Unicode block, added in version 5.1 of the Unicode Standard to support the modern orthography of Sundanese, where it is typically used for loanwords and proper names containing the q sound, which is not native to the language's consonant inventory. Its glyph features a distinctive curved shape with a dot above, fitting the stylistic patterns of the script's syllabic and abugida structure.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1B8B |
| Version Added | 5.1 |
| Name | Sundanese Letter Qa |
| Block | Sundanese |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᮋ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᮋ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xAE 0x8B |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1B8B |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001B8B |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1b8b |