U+049B "қ" Cyrillic Small Letter Ka with Descender Unicode Character

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.