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Cyrillic letter Ka with descender |
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Unicode (hex) | ||||||
majuscule: U+049A | ||||||
minuscule: U+049B | ||||||
Cyrillic script Slavic letters |
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А | Б | В | Г | Ґ | Д | Ђ |
Ѓ | Е | Ѐ | Ё | Є | Ж | З |
Ѕ | И | Ѝ | І | Ї | Й | Ј |
К | Л | Љ | М | Н | Њ | О |
П | Р | С | Т | Ћ | Ќ | У |
Ў | Ф | Х | Ц | Ч | Џ | Ш |
Щ | Ъ | Ы | Ь | Э | Ю | Я |
Non-Slavic letters | ||||||
Ӑ | Ӓ | Ә | Ӛ | Ӕ | Ғ | Ҕ |
Ӻ | Ӷ | Ԁ | Ԃ | Ꚉ | Ӗ | Ӂ |
Җ | Ӝ | Ԅ | Ҙ | Ӟ | Ԑ | Ӡ |
Ԇ | Ӣ | Ҋ | Ӥ | Қ | Ӄ | Ҡ |
Ҟ | Ҝ | Ԟ | Ԛ | Ӆ | Ԓ | Ԡ |
Ԉ | Ԕ | Ӎ | Ӊ | Ң | Ӈ | Ҥ |
Ԣ | Ԋ | Ӧ | Ө | Ӫ | Ҩ | Ԥ |
Ҧ | Ҏ | Ԗ | Ҫ | Ԍ | Ҭ | Ԏ |
Ӯ | Ӱ | Ӳ | Ү | Ұ | Ҳ | Ӽ |
Ӿ | Һ | Ԧ | Ҵ | Ҷ | Ӵ | Ӌ |
Ҹ | Ꚇ | Ҽ | Ҿ | Ӹ | Ҍ | Ӭ |
Ԙ | Ԝ | Ӏ | ||||
Archaic letters | ||||||
Ҁ | Ѻ | Ѹ | Ѡ | Ѿ | Ѣ | Ꙓ |
Ꙗ | Ѥ | Ѧ | Ѫ | Ѩ | Ѭ | Ѯ |
Ѱ | Ѳ | Ѵ | Ѷ | Ꙟ | ||
List of Cyrillic letters | ||||||
Cyrillic digraphs |
Ka with descender (Қ қ; italics: Қ қ) is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet used in a number of non-Slavic languages spoken on the territory of the former Soviet Union, including:
- the Turkic languages Kazakh, Uighur, Uzbek and several smaller languages (Karakalpak and Tofa), where it represents the voiceless uvular plosive /q/.
- Iranian languages such as Tajik and Ossetic (before 1924; now superseded by the digraph ⟨Къ⟩). Since /q/ is represented by the letter ق qāf in the Arabic alphabet, Қ is sometimes referred to as "Cyrillic Qaf".
- the Abkhaz language where it represents the voiceless velar plosive /k/. (The Cyrillic letter Ka (К к) is used to represent /kʼ/.) It was introduced in 1905 for the spelling of Abkhaz. From 1928 to 1938, Abkhaz was spelled with the Latin alphabet, and the corresponding letter was the Latin letter K with descender (Ⱪ ⱪ).
Its ISO 9 transliteration is ⟨ķ⟩ (⟨k⟩ with cedilla), and is so transliterated for Abkhaz, while the common Kazakh and Uzbek romanization is ⟨q⟩.
Computing codes
character | Қ | қ | ||
Unicode name | CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER KA WITH DESCENDER |
CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER KA WITH DESCENDER |
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character encoding | decimal | hex | decimal | hex |
Unicode | 1178 | 049A | 1179 | 049B |
UTF-8 | 210 154 | D2 9A | 210 155 | D2 9B |
Numeric character reference | Қ | Қ | қ | қ |
See also
Other Cyrillic letters used to write the sound /q/:
- Ӄ ӄ : Cyrillic letter Ka with hook
- Ҡ ҡ : Cyrillic letter Bashkir Qa
- Ԛ ԛ : Cyrillic letter Qa
- Ԟ ԟ : Cyrillic letter Aleut Ka
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