U+A758 "Ꝙ" Latin Capital Letter Q with Diagonal Stroke Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
Ꝙ
U+A758 "Ꝙ" Latin Capital Letter Q with Diagonal Stroke is a medieval scribal abbreviation used primarily in Latin manuscripts to denote the word "quod" or sometimes "quia," where the diagonal stroke through the capital Q serves as a shorthand mark to contract the text. It belongs to the Latin Extended-D block and is classified as a letter, appearing in historical documents alongside its lowercase counterpart, U+A759. This character is rarely used in modern typography but is included in Unicode to support the faithful reproduction of paleographic texts, allowing scholars to accurately represent the writing conventions of earlier centuries without resorting to visual approximations.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A758 |
| Version Added | 5.1 |
| Name | Latin Capital Letter Q with Diagonal Stroke |
| Block | Latin Extended-D |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ꝙ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ꝙ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0x9D 0x98 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA758 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A758 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua758 |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFD Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKD Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Alphabetic |
| Uppercase | Yes |
| Simple Lowercase Code Point | "ꝙ" U+A759 Latin Small Letter Q with Diagonal Stroke |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ꝙ" U+A759 Latin Small Letter Q with Diagonal Stroke |
| Simple Case Folding | "ꝙ" U+A759 Latin Small Letter Q with Diagonal Stroke |
| Case Folding | "ꝙ" U+A759 Latin Small Letter Q with Diagonal Stroke |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ꝙ" U+A759 Latin Small Letter Q with Diagonal Stroke |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ꝙ" U+A759 Latin Small Letter Q with Diagonal Stroke |
| Script | Latin |
| Script Extensions | Latin |
| Indic Syllabic Category | Other |
| ID Start | Yes |
| XID Start | Yes |
| ID Continue | Yes |
| XID Continue | Yes |
| Alphabetic | Yes |
| Vertical Orientation | Rotated |
| Grapheme Base | Yes |
| Grapheme Cluster Break | Other |
| Word Break | Alphabetic letter |
| Sentence Break | Upper |