K with stroke and diagonal stroke

Letter of the Latin alphabet

Ꝅ ꝅ

Usage

Type alphabetic

Unicode codepoint U+A744, U+A745

History

Development

- - - Κ κ ϰ
      - 𐌊
        K k
        Ꝅ ꝅ

Other

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K with stroke and diagonal stroke (Ꝅ, ꝅ) is a letter of the Latin alphabet, derived from K with the addition of bars through the ascender and the leg.

Usage

This letter is used in medieval texts as an abbreviation for karta and kartam, a document or writ.^[1] It was also used as an abbreviation for Kalendas at the end of the tenth century.^[2] The same function could also be performed by "K with stroke" (Ꝁ, ꝁ), or "K with diagonal stroke" (Ꝃ, ꝃ).^[1]

Computer encodings

Capital and small K with stroke and diagonal stroke is encoded in Unicode as of version 5.1, at codepoints U+A744 and U+A745.^[3]^[4]

References

^ ^a ^b "Proposal to add medievalist characters to the UCS" (PDF). 30 January 2006. International Organization for Standardization. Archived from the original (PDF) on 16 July 2011. Retrieved 2 March 2018.
^ Cappelli, Lexicon Abbreviaturarum, p. 195.
^ "Unicode Character 'LATIN CAPITAL LETTER K WITH STROKE AND DIAGONAL STROKE' (U+A744)". Fileformat.info. Retrieved 2 March 2018.
^ "Unicode Character 'LATIN SMALL LETTER K WITH STROKE AND DIAGONAL STROKE' (U+A745)". Fileformat.info. Retrieved 2 March 2018.

Bibliography

Adriano Cappelli, Lexicon Abbreviaturarum, J. J. Weber, Leipzig (1928).

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Letters (list)

Letters of the ISO basic Latin alphabet
Aa	Bb	Cc	Dd	Ee	Ff	Gg	Hh	Ii	Jj	Kk	Ll	Mm	Nn	Oo	Pp	Qq	Rr	Ss	Tt	Uu	Vv	Ww	Xx	Yy	Zz
Letter K with diacritics
Ḱḱ	Ǩǩ	Ķķ	Ḳḳ	Ḵḵ	Ƙƙ	Ⱪⱪ	ᶄ	Ꝁꝁ	Ꝃꝃ	Ꝅꝅ	Ꞣꞣ
Letters using bar or stroke sign ( ◌̵ ,◌̶, ◌̷, ◌̸ )
Ⱥⱥ	Ƀƀ	Ꞓꞓ	Ȼȼ	Đđ	Ɖɖ	Ꟈꟈ	Ɇɇ	ꬳ	Ꞙꞙ	Ꞡꞡ	Ǥǥ	Ħħ	Ɨ ɨ	𝼚	Ɉɉ	Ꝃꝃ	Ꞣꞣ	Ꝁꝁ	Ꝅꝅ	Ƚƚ	Ⱡⱡ	Ꝉꝉ	Łłᴌ	Ꞥꞥ	Ɵɵ
Ꝋꝋ	Øø	Ᵽᵽ	Ꝑꝑ	Ꝙꝙ	Ꝗꝗ	Ꞧꞧ	Ɍɍ	Ꞩꞩ	Ꟊꟊ	Ⱦⱦ	Ŧŧ	Ʉʉ	Ꞹꞹ	Ꝟꝟ	Ɏɏ	Ƶƶ