U+049B Cyrillic Small Letter Ka with Descender
U+049B was added in Unicode version 1.1 in 1993. It belongs to the block Cyrillic in the Basic Multilingual Plane.
This character is a Lowercase Letter and is mainly used in the Cyrillic script. Its uppercase variant is Cyrillic Capital Letter Ka with Descender and its titlecase variant is Cyrillic Capital 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+049B 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- Iranian languages such as Tajik and, before 1924, Ossetic (now superseded by the digraph ⟨Къ⟩).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 | 1179 |
| UTF-8 | D2 9B |
| UTF-16 | 04 9B |
| UTF-32 | 00 00 04 9B |
| URL-Quoted | %D2%9B |
| HTML hex reference | қ |
| Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | Ò› |
| LATEX | \cyrchar\cyrkdsc |
| Adobe Glyph List | kadescendercyrillic |
Related Characters
Confusables
Elsewhere
Complete Record
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| 1.1 (1993) | |
| CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER KA WITH DESCENDER | |
| CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER KA WITH RIGHT DESCENDER | |
| Cyrillic | |
| Lowercase Letter | |
| Cyrillic | |
| Left To Right | |
| Not Reordered | |
| none | |
| Cyrillic Small 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 Small 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 | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Lower | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Alphabetic Letter | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Cyrillic Small 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 |