U+A759 "ꝙ" Latin Small Letter Q with Diagonal Stroke Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꝙ
U+A759 "ꝙ" Latin Small Letter Q with Diagonal Stroke is a historical Latin letter used primarily in medieval orthography, particularly in Breton manuscripts, where it served as a distinctive abbreviation for words such as "que" or "quod," functioning much like the modern ampersand but specifically for the "q" sound. The diagonal stroke through the descender of the lowercase 'q' indicates the contraction or abbreviation of a following syllable. This character is part of the Latin Extended-D block, which contains many similar scribal abbreviations and medievalist text forms, and it is occasionally employed in modern typographic revivals or scholarly editions of old documents to preserve original spelling conventions.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A759 |
| Version Added | 5.1 |
| Name | Latin Small Letter Q with Diagonal Stroke |
| Block | Latin Extended-D |
| General Category | Lowercase 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 0x99 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA759 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A759 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua759 |
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 |
| Lowercase | Yes |
| Simple Uppercase Code Point | "Ꝙ" U+A758 Latin Capital Letter Q with Diagonal Stroke |
| Simple Titlecase Code Point | "Ꝙ" U+A758 Latin Capital Letter Q with Diagonal Stroke |
| Uppercase Code Point | "Ꝙ" U+A758 Latin Capital Letter Q with Diagonal Stroke |
| Titlecase Code Point | "Ꝙ" U+A758 Latin Capital Letter Q with Diagonal Stroke |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Titlecased | Yes |
| Changes When Uppercased | Yes |
| 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 | Lower |