Cyrillic letter used for /q/ in various languages
Cyrillic letter
Cyrillic letter Ka with hook |
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Phonetic usage: | /q/, formerly also /kʰ/ and /kʼ/ |
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Ka with hook (Ӄ ӄ; italics: Ӄ ӄ) 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 is widely used in the alphabets of Siberia and the Russian Far East: Chukchi, Koryak, Alyutor, Itelmen, Yukaghir, 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, Қ қ, which also stands for /q/.
It was also used to represent /kʰ/, 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 /kʼ/, the velar ejective stop, in two old Ossetian alphabets, Anders Johan Sjögren's 1844 alphabet and the Teachers' Congress's 1917 alphabet.
Computing codes
Character information
Preview |
Ӄ |
ӄ
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Unicode name
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CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER KJA
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CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER KJA
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Encodings |
decimal |
hex |
dec |
hex
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Unicode |
1219 |
U+04C3 |
1220 |
U+04C4
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UTF-8 |
211 131 |
D3 83 |
211 132 |
D3 84
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Numeric character reference |
Ӄ |
Ӄ |
ӄ |
ӄ
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See also
Other Cyrillic letters used to write the sound /q/: