Ka (Cyrillic) - Wikipedia
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Not to be confused with the Latin letter K, the Greek letter Κ, or the Greenlandic letter ĸ.
| Ka, како (Early Cyrillic alphabet) | |
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| К к | |
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| Usage | |
| Writing system | Cyrillic |
| Type | Alphabetic |
| Sound values | [k] |
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| Associated numbers | 20 (Cyrillic numerals) |
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Ka (К к; italics: К к) is a letter of the Cyrillic script.
It commonly represents the voiceless velar plosive /k/, like the pronunciation of ⟨k⟩ in "king" or "kick".
The Cyrillic letter Ka was derived from the Greek letter Kappa (Κ κ).
In the Early Cyrillic alphabet its name was како (kako), meaning "as".[1]
In the Cyrillic numeral system, Ka had a value of 20.
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.
In Russian, the letter Ka represents the plain voiceless velar plosive /k/ or the palatalized one /kʲ/; for example, the word "короткий" ("short") contains both the kinds: [kɐˈrotkʲɪj]. The palatalized variant is pronounced when the following letter in the word is ь, е, ё, и, ю, or я.
In Macedonian and Serbian, it always represents the sound /k/.
- 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
| Preview | К | к | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
- ^ Corbett, Professor Greville; Comrie, Professor Bernard (September 2003). The Slavonic Languages. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-136-86137-6.