Qa is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet

Cyrillic alphabet

The Cyrillic script or azbuka is an alphabetic writing system developed in the First Bulgarian Empire during the 10th century AD at the Preslav Literary School...

. Its form is based on the Latin letter Q

Q

Q is the seventeenth letter of the basic modern Latin alphabet.- History :The Semitic sound value of Qôp was , a sound common to Semitic languages, but not found in English or most Indo-European ones...

 (Q q). Depending on the font, the uppercase form can look like a reversed Latin letter P

P

P is the sixteenth letter of the basic modern Latin alphabet.-Usage:In English and most other European languages, P is a voiceless bilabial plosive. Both initial and final Ps can be combined with many other discrete consonants in English words...

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Qa is used in the alphabet of the Kurdish language

Kurdish language

Kurdish is a dialect continuum spoken by the Kurds in western Asia. It is part of the Iranian branch of the Indo-Iranian group of Indo-European languages....

 and in the old alphabet of the Abkhaz language

Abkhaz language

Abkhaz is a Northwest Caucasian language spoken mainly by the Abkhaz people. It is the official language of Abkhazia where around 100,000 people speak it. Furthermore, it is spoken by thousands of members of the Abkhazian diaspora in Turkey, Georgia's autonomous republic of Adjara, Syria, Jordan...

. In both it represents the voiceless uvular plosive /q/.

This character appeared in newspapers and articles such as 1955's Кӧрдо.

Computing codes

character
Unicode name	CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER QA		CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER QA
character encoding	decimal	hex	decimal	hex
Unicode Unicode Unicode is a computing industry standard for the consistent encoding, representation and handling of text expressed in most of the world's writing systems...	1306	051A	1307	051B
UTF-8 UTF-8 UTF-8 is a multibyte character encoding for Unicode. Like UTF-16 and UTF-32, UTF-8 can represent every character in the Unicode character set. Unlike them, it is backward-compatible with ASCII and avoids the complications of endianness and byte order marks...	212 154	D4 9A	212 155	D4 9B
Numeric character reference Numeric character reference A numeric character reference is a common markup construct used in SGML and other SGML-related markup languages such as HTML and XML. It consists of a short sequence of characters that, in turn, represent a single character from the Universal Character Set of Unicode...	Ԛ	Ԛ	ԛ	ԛ

See also

Other Cyrillic letters used to write the sound /q/: : Cyrillic letter Ka with descender : Cyrillic letter Ka with hook

Ka with hook

Ka with hook is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet. It is formed from the Cyrillic letter Ka by the addition of a hook.Ka with hook is used in the alphabets of the Chukchi, Khanty and Selkup languages, where it represents the voiceless uvular plosive .-Computing codes:-See also:Other Cyrillic...

 : Cyrillic letter Bashkir Qa

Bashkir Qa

Bashkir Qa or Bashkir Ka is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet. It is formed from the Cyrillic letter Ka with the top extending horizontally to the left....

 : Cyrillic letter Aleut Ka

Aleut Ka

Aleut Ka is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet. It is formed from the Cyrillic letter Ka by adding a stroke to the upper diagonal arm.Aleut Ka is used in the alphabet of the Aleut language, where it represents the voiceless uvular plosive ....

• Cyrillic characters in Unicode
  Cyrillic characters in Unicode
  The Cyrillic script is encoded in four blocks in Unicode, all in BMP:* Cyrillic: , 256 characters* Cyrillic Supplement: , 48 characters* Cyrillic Extended-A: , 32 characters* Cyrillic Extended-B: , 96 characters...