Ka (Cyrillic)

Cyrillic letter Ka
Numeric value:20
The Cyrillic script
Slavic letters
АБВГҐДЂ
ЃЕЀЁЄЖЗ
З́ЅИЍІЇЙ
ЈКЛЉМНЊ
ОПРСС́ТЋ
ЌУЎФХЦЧ
ЏШЩЪЫЬЭ
ЮЯ
Non-Slavic letters
А́А̀ӐА̄А̊А̃Ӓ
Ӓ̄В̌ӘӘ́Ә̃ӚӔ
ҒГ̧Г̑Г̄Г̣Г̌Ҕ
ӺҒ̌ӶԀԂ
Д̆Д̣ԪԬД̆Ӗ
Е̄Е̃Ё̄Є̈ӁҖ
ӜԄҘӞЗ̌З̱З̣
ԐԐ̈ӠԆӢИ̃Ҋ
ӤИ́ҚӃҠҞҜ
ԞК̣ԚӅԮԒԠ
ԈԔӍӉҢԨӇ
ҤԢԊО̆О̃О̄Ӧ
ӨӨ̄ӪҨԤҦР̌
ҎԖҪС̣С̱ԌТ̌
Т̣ҬԎУ̃
ӮӰӰ́ӲҮҮ́Ұ
Х̣Х̱Х̮Х̑ҲӼӾ
ҺҺ̈ԦҴҶ
ӴӋҸҼ
ҾЫ̆Ы̄ӸҌЭ̆Э̄
Э̇ӬӬ́Ӭ̄Ю̆Ю̈Ю̈́
Ю̄Я̆Я̄Я̈ԘԜӀ
Archaic letters
ҀѺ
ѸѠѼѾ
ѢѤѦ
ѪѨѬѮ
ѰѲѴѶ
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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 o ⟨k⟩ in "keeng".

History

The Cyrillic letter Ka wis derived frae the Greek letter Kappa (Κ κ).

In the Early Cyrillic alphabet its name wis како (kako), meanin "as".

In the Cyrillic numeral seestem, Ka haed a value o 20.

Fairm

The Cyrillic letter Ka leuks very similar, an corresponds tae the Latin letter K but, as wi maist Cyrillic letters, the lawercase fairm is simply a smawer version o the uppercase. Cyrillic Ka is generally differentiatit frae its Latin an Greek coonterpairts bi drawin its diagonal spurs wi curves instead o straicht lines.

Uisage

In Roushie, the letter Ka represents the plain voiceless velar plosive /k/ or the palatalized ane /kʲ/; for example, the wird короткий ("short") contains baith the kinds: [kɐˈrotkʲɪj]. The palatalized variant is pronounced when the follaein letter in the wird is ь, е, ё, и, ю, or я.

In Macedonie it always represents the soond /k/.

Relatit letters an ither similar characters

Computin codes

Character К к
Unicode name CYRILLIC CAIPITAL LETTER KA CYRILLIC SMAA LETTER KA
Encodins decimal hex decimal hex
Unicode 1050 U+041A 1082 U+043A
UTF-8 208 154 D0 9A 208 186 D0 BA
Numeric chairacter reference К К к к
KOI8-R an 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

Freemit airtins

  • The dictionar defineetion o К at Wiktionary
  • The dictionar defineetion o к at Wiktionary