K with stroke (Ꝁ, ꝁ) is a letter of the

Latin alphabet The Latin alphabet, also known as the Roman alphabet, is the collection of letters originally used by the Ancient Rome, ancient Romans to write the Latin language. Largely unaltered except several letters splitting—i.e. from , and from � ...

, derived from K with the addition of a bar through the letter. It was used in

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as an abbreviation for words that start with ''k''. In

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it was used for "konungr" (king) or to abbreviate the word "skulu" (shall) to "sꝁ". It was also found in Latin alphabets of languages in the Soviet Union.

Computer encodings

Capital and small K with stroke is encoded in

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as of version 5.1, at codepoints U+A740 and U+A741.

References

Phonetic transcription symbols Latin letters with diacritics {{phonetics-stub

Computer encodings

See also

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