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| Ka with descender | |
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| Usage | |
| Writing system | Cyrillic |
| Type | Alphabetic |
| Sound values | [q],[kʰ] |
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Ka with descender (Қ қ; italics:Қ қ), is a letter of theCyrillic script used in a number of non-Slavic languages spoken in the territory of the former Soviet Union, including:
ItsISO 9 transliteration is⟨ķ⟩ (k with cedilla),[2] and this is the standard transliteration forAbkhaz Қ. The commonKazakh andUzbekRomanization is⟨q⟩.
| Preview | Қ | қ | ||
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| Unicode name | CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER KA WITH DESCENDER | CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER KA WITH DESCENDER | ||
| Encodings | decimal | hex | dec | hex |
| Unicode | 1178 | U+049A | 1179 | U+049B |
| UTF-8 | 210 154 | D2 9A | 210 155 | D2 9B |
| Numeric character reference | Қ | Қ | қ | қ |
Other Cyrillic letters used to write the sound/q/:
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