U+049D "ҝ" Cyrillic Small Letter Ka with Vertical Stroke Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+049D "ҝ" Cyrillic Small Letter Ka with Vertical Stroke is a variant of the Cyrillic letter Ka, distinguished by a vertical stroke descending through the middle of the character's left vertical stem. This letter is primarily used in the Azerbaijani Cyrillic alphabet, where it represents the voiced velar fricative sound /ɣ/, similar to the voiced 'g' in some languages, and it contrasts with the standard Cyrillic Ka to denote a distinct phonetic value. Its uppercase counterpart is U+049C "Ҝ", and together they form a specialized character pair essential for accurately writing the Azerbaijani language in its Cyrillic orthography.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+049D |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Cyrillic Small Letter Ka with Vertical Stroke |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Cyrillic Small Letter Ka Vertical Bar |
| Block | Cyrillic |
| General Category | Lowercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ҝ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ҝ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xD2 0x9D |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x049D |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000049D |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u049d |
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 | "Ҝ" U+049C Cyrillic Capital Letter Ka with Vertical Stroke |
| Simple Titlecase Code Point | "Ҝ" U+049C Cyrillic Capital Letter Ka with Vertical Stroke |
| Uppercase Code Point | "Ҝ" U+049C Cyrillic Capital Letter Ka with Vertical Stroke |
| Titlecase Code Point | "Ҝ" U+049C Cyrillic Capital Letter Ka with Vertical Stroke |
| 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 |