U+049A "Қ" Cyrillic Capital Letter Ka with Descender Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+049A "Қ" Cyrillic Capital Letter Ka with Descender is a modified letter used in several non-Slavic languages that employ the Cyrillic script, including Kazakh, Uzbek, and Tajik. It represents a voiceless uvular plosive sound, similar to a hard "k" pronounced further back in the throat, and is formed by adding a descender or hook to the bottom of the standard Cyrillic letter Ka. This character distinguishes specific phonetic sounds that are essential for correctly writing and reading these languages, setting them apart from Russian and other Slavic Cyrillic alphabets.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+049A |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Cyrillic Capital Letter Ka with Descender |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Cyrillic Capital Letter Ka with Right Descender |
| Block | Cyrillic |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Қ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Қ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xD2 0x9A |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x049A |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000049A |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u049a |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFD Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKD Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Alphabetic |
| Uppercase | Yes |
| Simple Lowercase Code Point | "қ" U+049B Cyrillic Small Letter Ka with Descender |
| Lowercase Code Point | "қ" U+049B Cyrillic Small Letter Ka with Descender |
| Simple Case Folding | "қ" U+049B Cyrillic Small Letter Ka with Descender |
| Case Folding | "қ" U+049B Cyrillic Small Letter Ka with Descender |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "қ" U+049B Cyrillic Small Letter Ka with Descender |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "қ" U+049B Cyrillic Small Letter Ka with Descender |
| Script | Cyrillic |
| Script Extensions | Cyrillic |
| Indic Syllabic Category | Other |
| ID Start | Yes |
| XID Start | Yes |
| ID Continue | Yes |
| XID Continue | Yes |
| Alphabetic | Yes |
| Vertical Orientation | Rotated |
| Grapheme Base | Yes |
| Grapheme Cluster Break | Other |
| Word Break | Alphabetic letter |
| Sentence Break | Upper |