Ka with hook

Ka with hook
Ka with hook
Ӄ ӄ
Usage
Writing system	Cyrillic
Type	Alphabetic
Language of origin	Aleut, Alyutor, Chukchi, Itelmen, Ket, Koryak, Nivkh, Selkup, Tofalar, Yupik
In Unicode	U+04C3

Ka with hook (Ӄ ӄ; italics: Ӄ ӄ) is a letter of the Cyrillic script. It is formed from the Cyrillic letter Ka (К к) by the addition of a hook.

Ka with hook is widely used in the alphabets of Siberia and the Russian Far East: Chukchi^[1], Koryak^[2], Alyutor^[3], Itelmen^[4], Yupik, Aleut, Nivkh, Ket, Tofalar and Selkup, where it represents the voiceless uvular plosive /q/. It has been sometimes used in the Khanty language as a substitute for Cyrillic letter Ka with descender, Қ қ, which also stands for /q/.

It was also used to represent /kʰ/, the aspirated voiceless velar plosive, in the Translation Committee's Abkhaz alphabet, which was published around the turn of the 20th century, and to represent /kʼ/, the velar ejective stop, in two old Ossetian alphabets, Anders Johan Sjögren's 1844 alphabet and the Teachers' Congress's 1917 alphabet.

Computing codes

Character information
Preview	Ӄ		ӄ
Unicode name	CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER KA WITH HOOK		CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER KA WITH HOOK
Encodings	decimal	hex	dec	hex
Unicode	1219	U+04C3	1220	U+04C4
UTF-8	211 131	D3 83	211 132	D3 84
Numeric character reference	Ӄ	Ӄ	ӄ	ӄ

↑ "Chukchi". Omniglot. Retrieved August 27, 2026.
↑ "The Koryak Language". Endangered Languages of Indigenous Peoples of Siberia. Retrieved August 28, 2026.
↑ Nagayama, Yukari (2003). Очерк грамматики алюторского языка [Grammatical Outline of Alutor]. ELPR Publications Series A2-038 (in Russian). Kyoto.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
↑ "Dictionary". Harvard Itelmen Audio Video Dictionary. Retrieved August 29, 2026.