U+049B "қ" Cyrillic Small Letter Ka with Descender Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+049B "қ" Cyrillic Small Letter Ka with Descender is a variant of the standard Cyrillic letter Ka, distinguished by a short descender stroke extending downward from the bottom of the letter, which is used primarily in the alphabets of several non-Slavic languages that employ Cyrillic script, such as Kazakh, Uzbek, and Kyrgyz, to represent a voiceless uvular plosive sound (like the 'q' in Arabic). Its uppercase counterpart is U+049A "Қ", and the character is encoded in the Cyrillic block of the Unicode Standard, making it essential for properly rendering texts in these Central Asian languages where the descender differentiates the consonant from the regular "к" sound.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+049B |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Cyrillic Small Letter Ka with Descender |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Cyrillic Small Letter Ka with Right Descender |
| Block | Cyrillic |
| General Category | Lowercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | қ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | қ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xD2 0x9B |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x049B |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000049B |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u049b |
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 |
| Lowercase | Yes |
| Simple Uppercase Code Point | "Қ" U+049A Cyrillic Capital Letter Ka with Descender |
| Simple Titlecase Code Point | "Қ" U+049A Cyrillic Capital Letter Ka with Descender |
| Uppercase Code Point | "Қ" U+049A Cyrillic Capital Letter Ka with Descender |
| Titlecase Code Point | "Қ" U+049A Cyrillic Capital Letter Ka with Descender |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Titlecased | Yes |
| Changes When Uppercased | Yes |
| 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 | Lower |