U+A756 "" Latin Capital Letter Q with Stroke Through Descender Unicode Character

Unicode Version 18.0

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U+A756 "" 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
Name
Latin Capital Letter Q with Stroke Through Descender

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