U+A757 "ꝗ" Latin Small Letter Q with Stroke Through Descender Unicode Character
Unicode Version 18.0
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U+A757 "ꝗ" Latin Small Letter Q with Stroke Through Descender is a specialized typographic variant used primarily in medieval Latin and Old English manuscripts to represent an abbreviation. The stroke through the descender of the letter q typically signifies a contraction for words such as "quia," "quam," or "quod," allowing scribes to save space and expedite writing. This character is part of the Latin Extended-D block in Unicode, which preserves historical scripts and scribal abbreviations for digital use in scholarly, linguistic, and paleographic contexts.
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Latin Capital Letter Q with Stroke Through Descender
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Latin Capital Letter Q with Diagonal Stroke
General Properties
Code Point
U+A757
Name
Latin Small Letter Q with Stroke Through Descender
Encodings
HTML Decimal Encoding
ꝗ
HTML Hex Encoding
ꝗ
UTF-8 Encoding
0xEA 0x9D 0x97
UTF-16 Encoding
0xA757
UTF-32 Encoding
0x0000A757
C/C++/Java Escape
\ua757
Unicode Properties
Numeric Value
NaN
Simple Uppercase Code Point
Simple Titlecase Code Point
Uppercase Code Point
Titlecase Code Point
Script Extensions
Latin