U+043A "к" Cyrillic Small Letter Ka Unicode Character

U+043A "к" Cyrillic Small Letter Ka is the lowercase form of the Cyrillic letter Ka, which represents the voiceless velar plosive sound /k/, similar to the English letter "k" in "kite." It is part of the Cyrillic script used in many languages including Russian, Ukrainian, Bulgarian, and Serbian, and its uppercase counterpart is U+041A "К." The letter's shape resembles a smaller version of the Latin "K," though it derives from the Greek letter kappa, and it is the twelfth letter in the Russian alphabet. In Unicode, it belongs to the Cyrillic block and is commonly employed in digital text to represent the same phonetic value across various Slavic and non-Slavic languages that use the Cyrillic writing system.