Cuatrillo

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The cuatrillo (Ꜭ, lower case ꜭ) is a letter in the Latin writing system . The letter looks like a number 4 with a hook below. The letter was introduced by Spanish missionaries in Latin America for the writing of the Maya languages ​​there . The sound that this symbol represents is described by the missionaries as "a trilled palatal , between a hard c and a k" . This sound is known today as the velar ejective (IPA: / kʼ /).

A variant of the Cuatrillo is the Ꜯ , which represents a different sound.

Presentation on the computer

Unicode contains the cuatrillo at the code points U + A72C (upper case) and U + A72D (lower case).

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