K with stroke and diagonal stroke

Not to be confused with K with stroke or K with diagonal stroke.

K with stroke and diagonal stroke (Ꝅ, ꝅ) is a letter of the Latin alphabet, derived from K with the addition of bars through the ascender and the leg.

K with stroke and diagonal stroke
Ꝅ ꝅ
Usage
Type	alphabetic
In Unicode	U+A744, U+A745
History
Development	Κ κ ϰ 𐌊 K k Ꝅ ꝅ

Usage

This letter is used in medieval texts as an abbreviation for karta and kartam, a document or writ.^[1] It was also used as an abbreviation for Kalendas at the end of the tenth century.^[2] The same function could also be performed by "K with stroke" (Ꝁ, ꝁ), or "K with diagonal stroke" (Ꝃ, ꝃ).^[1]

Computer encodings

Capital and small K with stroke and diagonal stroke is encoded in Unicode as of version 5.1, at codepoints U+A744 and U+A745.^[3][4]