U+A758 "" Latin Capital Letter Q with Diagonal Stroke Unicode Character

Unicode Version 18.0

Source: Noto Sans Source: Browser Default

U+A758 "" 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 It belongs to the Latin Extended-D block and is classified as a letter, appearing in historical documents alongside its lowercase counterpart, U+A759.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
Name
Latin Capital Letter Q with Diagonal Stroke

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