U+049C "Ҝ" Cyrillic Capital Letter Ka with Vertical Stroke Unicode Character

U+049C "Ҝ" Cyrillic Capital Letter Ka with Vertical Stroke is a modified form of the standard Cyrillic letter Ka (К), distinguished by a vertical stroke through its center. This character is primarily used in the Cyrillic alphabet for certain Turkic languages, such as Azerbaijani, where it represents a voiced velar plosive /g/ sound or a similar voiced counterpart to the voiceless /k/. It also appears in historical orthographies and some other minority languages within the Russian Federation, serving as a distinct glyph to denote a specific phonetic value that differs from the plain Ka. In modern Azerbaijani, the letter has largely been replaced by the Latin letter Q, but it remains important in linguistic studies and digital text representations.