Tresillo

Tresillo (capital: Ꜫ, small: ꜫ) (Spanish for "little three") is a letter of the Latin alphabet, based on the numeral 3. It was invented by Jesuit missionaries in the 16th century in order to represent the uvular ejective consonant // found in Mayan languages.

The Tresillo is encoded in Unicode at the code points U+A72A and U+A72B, respectively.

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In music

Tresillo is the Spanish word for a triplet in music, that is, a group of three notes to be played in the time of two of the same kind.

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