Ka (Cyrillic)
Cyrillic letter Ka | |||||||
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Ꙕ | Ю̂ | Ꙗ | |||||
Я̈ | Я̂ | Я̨ | Ԙ | Ѥ | Ѧ | Ꙙ | Ѫ |
Ꙛ | Ѩ | Ꙝ | Ѭ | Ѯ | Ѱ | Ѳ | Ѵ |
Ѷ | Ꙟ |
Ka (К к or K k; italics: К к or K k or К к or K k; italics: К к or K k) is a letter of the Cyrillic script.
It commonly represents the voiceless velar plosive /k/, like the pronunciation of ⟨k⟩ in "king" or "kick".
History
The Cyrillic letter Ka was derived from the
In the Early Cyrillic alphabet its name was како (kako), meaning "as".[1]
In the Cyrillic numeral system, Ka had a value of 20.
Form
The Cyrillic letter Ka looks very similar, and corresponds to the Latin letter K. In many fonts, Cyrillic Ka is differentiated from its Latin and Greek counterparts by drawing one or both of its diagonal spurs with curved instead of straight. Also in some fonts the lowercase form of Ka has the vertical bar elongated above x-height, resembling the Latin lowercase k.
Usage
In
In Macedonian and Serbian it always represents the sound /k/.
Related letters and other similar characters
- Κ κ/ϰ : Greek letter Kappa
- K k : Latin letter K
- Q q : Latin letter Q
- C c : Latin letter C
- X x : Latin letter X
Computing codes
Preview | К | к | ||
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Unicode name | CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER KA | CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER KA | ||
Encodings | decimal | hex | dec | hex |
Unicode | 1050 | U+041A | 1082 | U+043A |
UTF-8 | 208 154 | D0 9A | 208 186 | D0 BA |
Numeric character reference | К |
К |
к |
к |
Named character reference | К | к | ||
KOI8-R and KOI8-U | 235 | EB | 203 | CB |
Code page 855 | 199 | C7 | 198 | C6 |
Code page 866 | 138 | 8A | 170 | AA |
Windows-1251 | 202 | CA | 234 | EA |
ISO-8859-5 |
186 | BA | 218 | DA |
Macintosh Cyrillic |
138 | 8A | 234 | EA |
See also
- Ka with descender
- Ka with hook
- Ka with stroke
- Ka with vertical stroke
- Aleut Ka
- Bashkir Ka
- Kje
External links
- The dictionary definition of К at Wiktionary
- The dictionary definition of к at Wiktionary
- On the Aorists in -κα. By R. G. Latham, Esq., M.D.
References
- ISBN 978-1-136-86137-6.