Ka with hook

Ka with hook (Ӄ ӄ; italics: Ӄ ӄ) is a letter of the Cyrillic script. It is formed from the Cyrillic letter Ka (К к) by the addition of a hook.

Ka with hook
Usage
Writing system	Cyrillic
Type	Alphabetic
Sound values	/q/, formerly also /kʰ/ and /kʼ/
This article contains phonetic transcriptions in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). For an introductory guide on IPA symbols, see Help:IPA. For the distinction between [ ], / / and ⟨ ⟩, see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters.

Ka with hook is widely used in the alphabets of Siberia and the Russian Far East: Chukchi, Koryak, Alyutor, Itelmen, Yupik, Aleut, Nivkh, Ket, Tofalar and Selkup, where it represents the voiceless uvular plosive /q/. It has been sometimes used in the Khanty language as a substitute for Cyrillic letter Ka with descender, Қ қ, which also stands for /q/.

It was also used to represent /kʰ/, the aspirated voiceless velar plosive, in the Translation Committee's Abkhaz alphabet, which was published around the turn of the 20th century, and to represent /kʼ/, the velar ejective stop, in two old Ossetian alphabets, Anders Johan Sjögren's 1844 alphabet and the Teachers' Congress's 1917 alphabet.

Computing codes

Character information

Preview	Ӄ		ӄ
Unicode name	CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER KJA		CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER KJA
Encodings	decimal	hex	dec	hex
Unicode	1219	U+04C3	1220	U+04C4
UTF-8	211 131	D3 83	211 132	D3 84
Numeric character reference	Ӄ	Ӄ	ӄ	ӄ

See also

Other Cyrillic letters used to write the sound /q/:

• Ҡ ҡ : Cyrillic letter Bashkir Qa
• Ԟ ԟ : Cyrillic letter Aleut Ka
• Ԛ ԛ : Cyrillic letter Qa
• Cyrillic characters in Unicode