What 𐒎 means
It represents the consonant written q in modern Somali.
Osman Yusuf Kenadid devised the alphabet between 1920 and 1922 after Arabic-based spellings left some Somali sounds unmarked. A few relatives first used Osmanya in private letters. After World War II, the Somali Youth League promoted it in schools; a 1959 account describes many learners as young, often women. Both Latin and Osmanya were adopted for use in 1961; Latin became official in the early 1970s.
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Who writes 𐒎
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Related characters
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Questions people ask
1Why does 𐒎 show as a box on some devices?
Because that device's fonts have no glyph for it. The character is still correct and still copies correctly — the box is a missing glyph, not a broken character.
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How to type or find 𐒎
- Search it as
- osmanya · far soomaali · farta cismaanya · somali script · somali alphabet · somali q
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
HTML
𐒎CSS
\1048EPalette
Copy it from the palette above; a standard Latin keyboard has no key for this letter.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
𐒎
HTML hex
𐒎
CSS content
content: "\1048E";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%90%92%8E
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On screen
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Code points
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JS .length
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UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.