Cuatrillo (capital: Ꜭ, small: ꜭ) (Spanish for "little four") is a letter of severalcolonial Mayan alphabets in theLatin script that is based on the digit4. It was invented by aFranciscan friar,Alonso de la Parra, in the 16th century to represent thevelar ejective consonant/kʼ/ found inMayan languages, and is known as one of theParra letters.
A derivative of the cuatrillo by adding a diacritic,⟨Ꜯ ꜯ⟩, was used for thealveolar ejective affricate/tsʼ/ found in the same languages.
As an example of use, the letter appears when spelling the name of theKʼicheʼ language in the Parra orthography:ꜭiche.[1]
The Cuatrillo was added to Unicode in March, 2008 with the release of 5.1.
| Preview | Ꜭ | ꜭ | Ꜯ | ꜯ | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unicode name | LATIN CAPITAL LETTER CUATRILLO | LATIN SMALL LETTER CUATRILLO | LATIN CAPITAL LETTER CUATRILLO WITH COMMA | LATIN SMALL LETTER CUATRILLO WITH COMMA | ||||
| Encodings | decimal | hex | dec | hex | dec | hex | dec | hex |
| Unicode | 42796 | U+A72C | 42797 | U+A72D | 42798 | U+A72E | 42799 | U+A72F |
| UTF-8 | 234 156 172 | EA 9C AC | 234 156 173 | EA 9C AD | 234 156 174 | EA 9C AE | 234 156 175 | EA 9C AF |
| Numeric character reference | Ꜭ | Ꜭ | ꜭ | ꜭ | Ꜯ | Ꜯ | ꜯ | ꜯ |
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