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Qa (Ԛ ԛ; italics: Ԛ ԛ) is a letter of the Cyrillic script. Its form is based on the Latin letter Q (Q q). Depending on the font, the uppercase form can look like a reversed Cyrillic letter Р, with the lowercase form also resembling a reversed Cyrillic letter Р.
Qa is used in the alphabet of the Kurdish language, where it represents the voiceless uvular plosive /q/. It was also used to represent /q’/, the uvular ejective stop (now represented by Ҟ ҟ), in the Translation Committee's Abkhaz alphabet,[1] published around the turn of the 20th century, and to represent /q/ in three old Ossetian alphabets (now represented by Хь хъ).
This character appeared in newspapers and articles such as 1955's Кӧрдо.[citation needed]
The letter was also used in the scrapped version of the Azerbaijani alphabet.[citation needed] It was, however, eliminated and replaced by ҜinDagestan.
Preview | Ԛ | ԛ | ||
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Unicode name | CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER QA | CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER QA | ||
Encodings | decimal | hex | dec | hex |
Unicode | 1306 | U+051A | 1307 | U+051B |
UTF-8 | 212 154 | D4 9A | 212 155 | D4 9B |
Numeric character reference | Ԛ |
Ԛ |
ԛ |
ԛ |
Other Cyrillic letters used to write the sound /q/:
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