Ka (Cyrillic)
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
[eedit | eedit soorce]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
[eedit | eedit soorce]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
[eedit | eedit soorce]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
[eedit | eedit soorce]- Κ κ/ϰ : Greek letter Kappa
- K k : Latin letter K
Computin codes
[eedit | eedit soorce]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 |