Ka (Cyrillic)

Ka (К к; italics: К к) is a letter of the Cyrillic script.

Cyrillic letter Ka
Numeric value:	20
The Cyrillic script
Slavic letters
А Б В Г Ґ Д Ђ Ѓ Е Ѐ Ё Є Ж З З́ Ѕ И Ѝ І Ї Й Ј К Л Љ М Н Њ О П Р С С́ Т Ћ Ќ У Ў Ф Х Ц Ч Џ Ш Щ Ъ Ы Ь Э Ю Я
Non-Slavic letters
А́ А̀ Ӑ А̄ А̊ А̃ Ӓ Ӓ̄ В̌ Ә Ә́ Ә̃ Ӛ Ӕ Ғ Г̧ Г̑ Г̄ Г̣ Г̌ Ҕ Ӻ Ғ̌ Ӷ Ԁ Ԃ Ꚃ Ꚁ Ꚉ Д̆ Д̣ Ԫ Ԭ Д̆ Ӗ Е̄ Е̃ Ё̄ Є̈ Ӂ Җ Ꚅ Ӝ Ԅ Ҙ Ӟ З̌ З̱ З̣ Ԑ Ԑ̈ Ӡ Ԇ Ӣ И̃ Ҋ Ӥ И́ Қ Ӄ Ҡ Ҟ Ҝ Ԟ К̣ Ԛ Ӆ Ԯ Ԓ Ԡ Ԉ Ԕ Ӎ Ӊ Ң Ԩ Ӈ Ҥ Ԣ Ԋ О̆ О̃ О̄ Ӧ Ө Ө̄ Ӫ Ҩ Ԥ Ҧ Р̌ Ҏ Ԗ Ҫ С̣ С̱ Ԍ Т̌ Т̣ Ꚑ Ҭ Ꚋ Ꚍ Ԏ У̃ Ӯ Ӱ Ӱ́ Ӳ Ү Ү́ Ұ Х̣ Х̱ Х̮ Х̑ Ҳ Ӽ Ӿ Һ Һ̈ Ԧ Ꚕ Ҵ Ꚏ Ҷ Ӵ Ӌ Ҹ Ꚓ Ꚗ Ꚇ Ҽ Ҿ Ы̆ Ы̄ Ӹ Ҍ Э̆ Э̄ Э̇ Ӭ Ӭ́ Ӭ̄ Ю̆ Ю̈ Ю̈́ Ю̄ Я̆ Я̄ Я̈ Ԙ Ԝ Ӏ
Archaic letters
Ꙁ Ꙃ Ꙅ Ꙇ Ꙉ Ҁ Ѻ Ѹ Ꙋ Ѡ Ѽ Ꙍ Ѿ Ꙏ Ѣ Ꙑ Ꙓ Ꙕ Ꙗ Ѥ Ѧ Ꙙ Ѫ Ꙛ Ѩ Ꙝ Ѭ Ѯ Ѱ Ѳ Ѵ Ѷ Ꙟ Ꙡ Ꙣ Ꙥ Ꙧ Ꙩ Ꙫ Ꙭ ꙮ Ꚙ Ꚛ
Leet o Cyrillic letters Cyrillic digraphs

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

• Κ κ/ϰ : Greek letter Kappa
• K k : Latin letter K

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