Qa (Cyrillic)

Qa
Qa
Ԛ ԛ
Usage
Writing system	Cyrillic
Type	Alphabetic
Sound values	[q], formerly also [qʼ]
History
Development	Q q Ԛ ԛ;
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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). The lowercase form can look like a reversed Cyrillic letter Р, and the uppercase as well depending on font.

Qa is used in the Cyrillic 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 or Kurdo.^{[citation needed]}

In the 1930s, Qa was used in the Cyrillic script for the Assyrian language (Suret) in the USSR and represented the voiceless velar plosive.

The letter was also used in the scrapped version of the Azerbaijani alphabet.^{[citation needed]} It was, however, eliminated and replaced by Ҝ in Dagestan.

Computing codes

Character information
Preview	Ԛ	ԛ
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

References

^ Everson, M; Birnbaum, D; Cleminson, R; Derzhanski, I; Dorosh, V; Kryukov, A; Paliga, S; Ruppel, K (2007). "Proposal to encode additional Cyrillic characters in the BMP of the UCS" (PDF). Unicode.