Cyrillic letter Qaf
Unicode (hex)
majuscule: U+049A
minuscule: U+049B
Cyrillic alphabet
А	Б	В	Г	Ґ	Д	Ђ
Ѓ	Е	Ѐ	Ё	Є	Ж	З
Ѕ	И	Ѝ	І	Ї	Й	Ј
К	Л	Љ	М	Н	Њ	О
П	Р	С	Т	Ћ	Ќ	У
Ў	Ф	Х	Ц	Ч	Џ	Ш
Щ	Ъ	Ы	Ь	Э	Ю	Я
Non-Slavic letters
Ӑ	Ӓ	Ә	Ӛ	Ӕ	Ғ	Ҕ
Ӻ	Ӷ	Ԁ	Ԃ	Ӗ	Ӂ	Җ
Ӝ	Ԅ	Ҙ	Ӟ	Ԑ	Ӡ	Ԇ
Ӣ	Ҋ	Ӥ	Қ	Ӄ	Ҡ	Ҟ
Ҝ	Ԟ	Ԛ	Ӆ	Ԓ	Ԡ	Ԉ
Ԕ	Ӎ	Ӊ	Ң	Ӈ	Ҥ	Ԣ
Ԋ	Ӧ	Ө	Ӫ	Ҩ	Ҧ	Ҏ
Ԗ	Ҫ	Ԍ	Ҭ	Ԏ	Ӯ	Ӱ
Ӳ	Ү	Ұ	Ҳ	Ӽ	Ӿ	Һ
Ҵ	Ҷ	Ӵ	Ӌ	Ҹ	Ҽ	Ҿ
Ӹ	Ҍ	Ӭ	Ԙ	Ԝ	Ӏ
Archaic letters
Ҁ	Ѻ	ОУ	Ѡ	Ѿ	Ѣ	Ꙓ
Ꙗ	Ѥ	Ѧ	Ѫ	Ѩ	Ѭ	Ѯ
Ѱ	Ѳ	Ѵ	Ѷ	Ꙟ
List of Cyrillic letters
Cyrillic digraphs

The Cyrillic letter Қ, қ (in Kazakh: Qa) is a К with a descender. It is used in a number of Turkic languages spoken on the territory of the former Soviet Union, including Kazakh, Uzbek, Uighur and several smaller languages (Karakalpak, Tofa), where it represents a voiceless uvular plosive /q/. It also used in Iranian languages such as Tajik and Ossetic (before 1924; now superseded by digraph Къ). Since /q/ is represented by the letter ق qāf in the Arabic alphabet, Қ is sometimes referred to as "Cyrillic Qaf."

The letter is also used in Abkhaz to represent another sound, a voiceless velar plosive (/k/). (Plain Cyrillic "К" is used to represent /kʼ/.) It was introduced in 1905 for the spelling of Abkhaz. From 1928 to 1938, Abkhaz was spelled with the Latin alphabet, and the corresponding letter was a Latin Ⱪ with descender.

Its ISO 9 transliteration is ķ (k with cedilla), and is so transliterated for Abkhaz, while the common Kazakh and Uzbek romanization is q.

[edit] See also

• Ka
• Aleut Ka, Ka with hook, Qa, and Bashkir Qa, other Cyrillic letters used to write /q/
• Kazakh language
• Uzbek language
• Abkhaz language

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