U+A756 "Ꝗ" Latin Capital Letter Q with Stroke Through Descender Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
Ꝗ
U+A756 "Ꝗ" Latin Capital Letter Q with Stroke Through Descender is a historical typographic variant of the Latin letter Q, distinguished by a horizontal stroke through the descending tail of the character. This letter was used in medieval and early modern texts, particularly in certain Old English and Continental manuscripts, where the stroke served as an abbreviation mark or a scribal convention to denote specific phonetic values or shorthand notations. As part of the Latin Extended-D block, it is a rare but recognized symbol for scholars studying paleography, historical linguistics, and textual criticism.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A756 |
| Version Added | 5.1 |
| Name | Latin Capital Letter Q with Stroke Through Descender |
| Block | Latin Extended-D |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ꝗ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ꝗ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0x9D 0x96 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA756 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A756 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua756 |