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Glyph for U+024B
Source: Noto Sans

U+024B Latin Small Letter Q with Hook Tail

U+024B was added in Unicode version 5.0 in 2006. It belongs to the block U+0180 to U+024F Latin Extended-B in the U+0000 to U+FFFF Basic Multilingual Plane.

This character is a Lowercase Letter and is mainly used in the Latin script. Its uppercase variant is Glyph for U+024A Latin Capital Letter Small Q with Hook Tail and its titlecase variant is Glyph for U+024A Latin Capital Letter Small Q with Hook Tail.

The glyph is not a composition. It has no designated width in East Asian texts. In bidirectional text it is written from left to right. When changing direction it is not mirrored. The word that U+024B forms with similar adjacent characters prevents a line break inside it. The glyph can be confused with one other glyph.

The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:

Q with hook tail (majuscule: Ɋ, minuscule: ɋ) is a letter of the extended Latin alphabet. It was introduced by Lutheran missionaries in Papua New Guinea for use in the Numanggang language in the 1930s or 1940s. In 2002, it was decided to discontinue using the letter. It is still used in the Kâte language to represent a voiced labial-velar plosive /ɡ͡b/. (Latin Q is voiceless /k͡p/)

In some forms of handwriting for English (and presumably other languages based on the Latin alphabet), lowercase q always has a hook tail. This is particularly evident in geometric sans-serif typefaces used to teach children how to write.

Despite the name, the uppercase glyph itself resembles more the letter latin alpha (Ɑ) than Q.

Representations

System Representation
587
UTF-8 C9 8B
UTF-16 02 4B
UTF-32 00 00 02 4B
URL-Quoted %C9%8B
HTML hex reference ɋ
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake É‹
AGL: Latin-5 uni024B

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Complete Record

Property Value
Age (age) 5.0 (2006)
Unicode Name (na) LATIN SMALL LETTER Q WITH HOOK TAIL
Unicode 1 Name (na1)
Block (blk) Latin Extended-B
General Category (gc) Lowercase Letter
Script (sc) Latin
Bidirectional Category (bc) Left To Right
Combining Class (ccc) Not Reordered
Decomposition Type (dt) none
Decomposition Mapping (dm) Glyph for U+024B Latin Small Letter Q with Hook Tail
Lowercase (Lower)
Simple Lowercase Mapping (slc) Glyph for U+024B Latin Small Letter Q with Hook Tail
Lowercase Mapping (lc) Glyph for U+024B Latin Small Letter Q with Hook Tail
Uppercase (Upper)
Simple Uppercase Mapping (suc) Glyph for U+024A Latin Capital Letter Small Q with Hook Tail
Uppercase Mapping (uc) Glyph for U+024A Latin Capital Letter Small Q with Hook Tail
Simple Titlecase Mapping (stc) Glyph for U+024A Latin Capital Letter Small Q with Hook Tail
Titlecase Mapping (tc) Glyph for U+024A Latin Capital Letter Small Q with Hook Tail
Case Folding (cf) Glyph for U+024B Latin Small Letter Q with Hook Tail
ASCII Hex Digit (AHex)
Alphabetic (Alpha)
Bidi Control (Bidi_C)
Bidi Mirrored (Bidi_M)
Composition Exclusion (CE)
Case Ignorable (CI)
Changes When Casefolded (CWCF)
Changes When Casemapped (CWCM)
Changes When NFKC Casefolded (CWKCF)
Changes When Lowercased (CWL)
Changes When Titlecased (CWT)
Changes When Uppercased (CWU)
Cased (Cased)
Full Composition Exclusion (Comp_Ex)
Default Ignorable Code Point (DI)
Dash (Dash)
Deprecated (Dep)
Diacritic (Dia)
Emoji Modifier Base (EBase)
Emoji Component (EComp)
Emoji Modifier (EMod)
Emoji Presentation (EPres)
Emoji (Emoji)
Extender (Ext)
Extended Pictographic (ExtPict)
FC NFKC Closure (FC_NFKC) Glyph for U+024B Latin Small Letter Q with Hook Tail
Grapheme Cluster Break (GCB) Any
Grapheme Base (Gr_Base)
Grapheme Extend (Gr_Ext)
Grapheme Link (Gr_Link)
Hex Digit (Hex)
Hyphen (Hyphen)
ID Continue (IDC)
ID Start (IDS)
IDS Binary Operator (IDSB)
IDS Trinary Operator and (IDST)
IDSU (IDSU) 0
ID_Compat_Math_Continue (ID_Compat_Math_Continue) 0
ID_Compat_Math_Start (ID_Compat_Math_Start) 0
Ideographic (Ideo)
InCB (InCB) None
Indic Mantra Category (InMC)
Indic Positional Category (InPC) NA
Indic Syllabic Category (InSC) Other
Jamo Short Name (JSN)
Join Control (Join_C)
Logical Order Exception (LOE)
Math (Math)
Noncharacter Code Point (NChar)
NFC Quick Check (NFC_QC) Yes
NFD Quick Check (NFD_QC) Yes
NFKC Casefold (NFKC_CF) Glyph for U+024B Latin Small Letter Q with Hook Tail
NFKC Quick Check (NFKC_QC) Yes
NFKC_SCF (NFKC_SCF) Glyph for U+024B Latin Small Letter Q with Hook Tail
NFKD Quick Check (NFKD_QC) Yes
Other Alphabetic (OAlpha)
Other Default Ignorable Code Point (ODI)
Other Grapheme Extend (OGr_Ext)
Other ID Continue (OIDC)
Other ID Start (OIDS)
Other Lowercase (OLower)
Other Math (OMath)
Other Uppercase (OUpper)
Prepended Concatenation Mark (PCM)
Pattern Syntax (Pat_Syn)
Pattern White Space (Pat_WS)
Quotation Mark (QMark)
Regional Indicator (RI)
Radical (Radical)
Sentence Break (SB) Lower
Soft Dotted (SD)
Sentence Terminal (STerm)
Terminal Punctuation (Term)
Unified Ideograph (UIdeo)
Variation Selector (VS)
Word Break (WB) Alphabetic Letter
White Space (WSpace)
XID Continue (XIDC)
XID Start (XIDS)
Expands On NFC (XO_NFC)
Expands On NFD (XO_NFD)
Expands On NFKC (XO_NFKC)
Expands On NFKD (XO_NFKD)
Bidi Paired Bracket (bpb) Glyph for U+024B Latin Small Letter Q with Hook Tail
Bidi Paired Bracket Type (bpt) None
East Asian Width (ea) neutral
Hangul Syllable Type (hst) Not Applicable
ISO 10646 Comment (isc)
Joining Group (jg) No_Joining_Group
Joining Type (jt) Non Joining
Line Break (lb) Alphabetic
Numeric Type (nt) none
Numeric Value (nv) not a number
Simple Case Folding (scf) Glyph for U+024B Latin Small Letter Q with Hook Tail
Script Extension (scx)
Vertical Orientation (vo) R