U+049A Cyrillic Capital Letter Ka with Descender
U+049A was added in Unicode version 1.1 in 1993. It belongs to the block Cyrillic in the Basic Multilingual Plane.
This character is a Uppercase Letter and is mainly used in the Cyrillic script. Its lowercase variant is Cyrillic Small Letter Ka with Descender.
The glyph is not a composition. It has no designated width in East Asian texts. In bidirectional text it is written from left to right. When changing direction it is not mirrored. The word that U+049A forms with similar adjacent characters prevents a line break inside it. The glyph can be confused with one other glyph.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
Qaf, or Ka with descender (Қ қ; italics: Қ қ), is a letter of the Cyrillic script used in a number of non-Slavic languages spoken in the territory of the former Soviet Union, including:
- the Turkic languages Kazakh, Uyghur, Uzbek and several smaller languages (Karakalpak, Shor and Tofa), where it represents the voiceless uvular plosive /q/.
- Iranian languages such as Tajik and, before 1924, Ossetic (now superseded by the digraph ⟨Къ⟩).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".
- Eastern varieties of the Khanty language, where it also represents /q/.
- the Abkhaz language, where it represents the aspirated voiceless velar plosive /kʰ/. (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⟩.
Representations
| System | Representation |
|---|---|
| Nº | 1178 |
| UTF-8 | D2 9A |
| UTF-16 | 04 9A |
| UTF-32 | 00 00 04 9A |
| URL-Quoted | %D2%9A |
| HTML hex reference | Қ |
| Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | Òš |
| LATEX | \cyrchar\CYRKDSC |
| Adobe Glyph List | Kadescendercyrillic |
Related Characters
Confusables
Elsewhere
Complete Record
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| 1.1 (1993) | |
| CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER KA WITH DESCENDER | |
| CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER KA WITH RIGHT DESCENDER | |
| Cyrillic | |
| Uppercase Letter | |
| Cyrillic | |
| Left To Right | |
| Not Reordered | |
| none | |
| Cyrillic Capital Letter Ka with Descender | |
| ✘ | |
| Cyrillic Small Letter Ka with Descender | |
| Cyrillic Small Letter Ka with Descender | |
| ✔ | |
| Cyrillic Capital Letter Ka with Descender | |
| Cyrillic Capital Letter Ka with Descender | |
| Cyrillic Capital Letter Ka with Descender | |
| Cyrillic Capital Letter Ka with Descender | |
| Cyrillic Small Letter Ka with Descender | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Cyrillic Capital Letter Ka with Descender | |
| Any | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| ✘ | |
| None | |
| — | |
| NA | |
| Other | |
| — | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Yes | |
| Yes | |
| Cyrillic Small Letter Ka with Descender | |
| Yes | |
| Cyrillic Small Letter Ka with Descender | |
| Yes | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Upper | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Alphabetic Letter | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Cyrillic Capital Letter Ka with Descender | |
| None | |
| neutral | |
| Not Applicable | |
| — | |
| No_Joining_Group | |
| Non Joining | |
| Alphabetic | |
| none | |
| not a number | |
| Cyrillic Small Letter Ka with Descender | |
| R |