K with diagonal stroke
Letter of the Latin alphabet
K with diagonal stroke (Ꝃ, ꝃ) is a letter of the Latin alphabet, derived from K with the addition of a diagonal bar through the leg.
01Usage
This letter is used in medieval texts as an abbreviation for kalendas, calends, as well as for karta and kartam, a document or writ. The same function could also be performed by "K with stroke" (Ꝁ, ꝁ), or "K with stroke and diagonal stroke" (Ꝅ, ꝅ).
In the Breton language, this letter is used, mainly from the fifteenth to the twentieth century, to abbreviate Ker, a prefix used in place names, similar to the Welsh caer.
02Computer encodings
Capital and small K with diagonal stroke is encoded in Unicode as of version 5.1, at codepoints U+A742 and U+A743.
It may be transliterated as ⟨K'⟩ or ⟨K/⟩ as in the name of Emeline K/Bidi (French pronunciation: [kɛʁbidi]), a French Réunion politician with a Breton surname.
Sources and credits
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- Latin letter K with diagonal stroke.svg by Person or Persons Unknown, CC BY-SA 4.0
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