K with stroke and diagonal stroke
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Letter of the Latin alphabet
Not to be confused with K with stroke or K with diagonal stroke.
| K with stroke and diagonal stroke | |
|---|---|
| Ꝅ ꝅ | |
| Upper and lower case of K with stroke and diagonal stroke | |
| Usage | |
| Type | alphabetic |
| InUnicode | U+A744, U+A745 |
| History | |
| Development | D46 |
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
[edit ]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
[edit ]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
[edit ]- 1 2 "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
[edit ]- Adriano Cappelli, Lexicon Abbreviaturarum , J. J. Weber, Leipzig (1928).
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