U+04A0 "Ҡ" Cyrillic Capital Letter Bashkir Ka Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+04A0 "Ҡ" Cyrillic Capital Letter Bashkir Ka is a distinct letter used in the Cyrillic script specifically for the Bashkir language, where it represents the voiceless uvular plosive sound /q/. It is formed from the standard Cyrillic letter Ka (К) with a descender or a hook added to the bottom of the vertical stroke, distinguishing it from similar characters like Қ used in other Turkic languages. This letter is an essential part of the modern Bashkir alphabet, officially adopted in the early 20th century, and appears in both uppercase (Ҡ) and lowercase (ҡ) forms to write native Bashkir words and loanwords that require the back-of-the-throat /q/ sound not found in Russian.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+04A0 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Cyrillic Capital Letter Bashkir Ka |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Cyrillic Capital Letter Reversed Ge Ka |
| Block | Cyrillic |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ҡ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ҡ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xD2 0xA0 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x04A0 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000004A0 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u04a0 |
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 | "ҡ" U+04A1 Cyrillic Small Letter Bashkir Ka |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ҡ" U+04A1 Cyrillic Small Letter Bashkir Ka |
| Simple Case Folding | "ҡ" U+04A1 Cyrillic Small Letter Bashkir Ka |
| Case Folding | "ҡ" U+04A1 Cyrillic Small Letter Bashkir Ka |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ҡ" U+04A1 Cyrillic Small Letter Bashkir Ka |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ҡ" U+04A1 Cyrillic Small Letter Bashkir Ka |
| 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 |