Ka with hook (? ?; italics: ? ?) is a letter of the Cyrillic script. It is formed from the Cyrillic letter Ka (К к) by the addition of a hook.
| Ka with hook | |
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| Usage | |
| Writing system | Cyrillic |
| Type | Alphabetic |
| Sound values | /q/, formerly also /k?/ and /k?/, /?/ |
Ka with hook is widely used in the alphabets of Siberia and the Russian Far East: Chukchi, Koryak, Alyutor, Itelmen, Yupik, Aleut, Nivkh, Ket, Tofalar and Selkup, where it represents the voiceless uvular plosive /q/. It has been sometimes used in the Khanty language as a substitute for Cyrillic letter Ka with descender, ? ?, which also stands for /q/.
It was also used to represent /k?/, the aspirated voiceless velar plosive, in the Translation Committee's Abkhaz alphabet, which was published around the turn of the 20th century, and to represent /k?/, the velar ejective stop, in two old Ossetian alphabets, Anders Johan Sj?gren's 1844 alphabet and the Teachers' Congress's 1917 alphabet.
Computing codes
edit| Preview | ? | ? | ||
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| Unicode name | CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER KJA |
CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER KJA | ||
| Encodings | decimal | hex | dec | hex |
| Unicode | 1219 | U+04C3 | 1220 | U+04C4 |
| UTF-8 | 211 131 | D3 83 | 211 132 | D3 84 |
| Numeric character reference | Ӄ |
Ӄ |
ӄ |
ӄ |
See also
editOther Cyrillic letters used to write the sound /q/:
- ? ? : Cyrillic letter Bashkir Qa
- ? ? : Cyrillic letter Aleut Ka
- ? ? : Cyrillic letter Qa
- Cyrillic characters in Unicode
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