U+A7AF "ꞯ" Latin Letter Small Capital Q Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+A7AF "ꞯ" Latin Letter Small Capital Q is a typographic variant of the letter Q, designed as a small capital form rather than a lowercase or uppercase letter, and it was added to the Unicode standard to support historical and phonetic transcription needs, particularly in linguistic documentation where small capitals are used to denote specific sounds or grammatical distinctions. It is part of the Latin Extended D block and is notable for its resemblance to a superscript or reduced version of a standard capital Q, yet it retains its own distinct codepoint for precise encoding in digital text.

General Properties

Code Point U+A7AF
Version Added 11.0
Name Latin Letter Small Capital Q
Block Latin Extended-D
General Category Lowercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ꞯ
HTML Hex Encoding ꞯ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEA 0x9E 0xAF
UTF-16 Encoding 0xA7AF
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000A7AF
C/C++/Java Escape \ua7af

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
Cased 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