Ka with grave (К̀ к̀) is an additional letter of the Cyrillic script which was used in Chuvash in the 19th century. It is composed of the letter ka ⟨К⟩ with a grave accent.

Usage

The initial alphabet of Ivan Yakovlev, with ka with grave.
The cover of a Chuvash syllabary of 1872, with ka with grave.

Ka with grave was used in Ivan Yakovlev's initial alphabet of 47 letters, representing the palatalized voiceless velar plosive [kʲ] or the voiceless palatal plosive [c].

Computing codes

Ka with grave can be represented with the following Unicode characters:

Character information
Preview К к ̀
Unicode name CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER KA CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER KA COMBINING GRAVE ACCENT
Encodings decimal hex dec hex dec hex
Unicode 1050 U+041A 1082 U+043A 768 U+0300
UTF-8 208 154 D0 9A 208 186 D0 BA 204 128 CC 80
Numeric character reference К К к к ̀ ̀
Named character reference К к
KOI8-R and KOI8-U 235 EB 203 CB
Code page 855 199 C7 198 C6
Code page 866 138 8A 170 AA
Windows-1251 202 CA 234 EA
ISO-8859-5 186 BA 218 DA
Macintosh Cyrillic 138 8A 234 EA

Notes and references


Bibliography

  • Т́ъваш ад́изен̀е с̀ыръва в̀ьр̀ен̀м̀ел̀л̀и к̀н̀ег̀е (in Chuvash). Казань: Лито- и типография К. А. Тилли. 1872.
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