The tresillo
Tresillo (capital: Ꜫ, small: ꜫ; Spanish for "little three") is a letter of several colonial Mayan alphabets in the Latin script that is based on the digit 3. It was invented by a Franciscan friar, Francisco de la Parra, in the 16th century to represent the uvular ejective consonant /qʼ/ found in Mayan languages, and is known as one of the Parra letters. In cursive form, the tresillo is often written ⟨c ̑ ⟩.
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As an example of use, the word for fire in the Kaqchikel language, qʼaqʼ, is written ꜫaꜫ in the Parra orthography. [1]
| Preview | Ꜫ | ꜫ | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unicode name | LATIN CAPITAL LETTER TRESILLO | LATIN SMALL LETTER TRESILLO | ||
| Encodings | decimal | hex | dec | hex |
| Unicode | 42794 | U+A72A | 42795 | U+A72B |
| UTF-8 | 234 156 170 | EA 9C AA | 234 156 171 | EA 9C AB |
| Numeric character reference | Ꜫ | Ꜫ | ꜫ | ꜫ |
