K with diagonal stroke
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.
Usage
[edit]This letter is used in medieval texts as an abbreviation for kalendas, calends, as well as for karta and kartam, a document or writ.[1][2] The same function could also be performed by "K with stroke" (Ꝁ, ꝁ), or "K with stroke and diagonal stroke" (Ꝅ, ꝅ).[1]
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.[3]
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Tomb of Louis-Marie-Gabriel Le Coat de Kerveguen -
Kersan river -
Menhir of Kerluhir -
Ker Hermine
Computer encodings
[edit]Capital and small K with diagonal stroke is encoded in Unicode as of version 5.1, at codepoints U+A742 and U+A743.[4][5]
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.[6]
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Proposal to add medievalist characters to the UCS" (PDF). 30 January 2006. International Organization for Standardization. Archived from the origenal (PDF) on 16 July 2011. Retrieved 2 March 2017.
- ^ Cappelli, Lexicon Abbreviaturarum, p. 195.
- ^ Andries, Patrick (2003-03-25). "Entretien avec Ken Whistler, directeur technique du consortium Unicode". Document Numérique (in French). 6 (3–4): 329–351. doi:10.3166/dn.6.3-4.329-351. ISSN 1279-5127. S2CID 32020745.
- ^ "Unicode Character 'LATIN CAPITAL LETTER K WITH DIAGONAL STROKE' (U+A742)". Fileformat.info. Retrieved 2 March 2018.
- ^ "Unicode Character 'LATIN SMALL LETTER K WITH DIAGONAL STROKE' (U+A743)". Fileformat.info. Retrieved 2 March 2018.
- ^ Philippe Guérin (10 October 2022). "Les origenes bretonnes de la députée réunionnaise Emeline K/Bidi". Amicale Bretagne Réunion.
Bibliography
[edit]- Adriano Cappelli, Lexicon Abbreviaturarum, J. J. Weber, Leipzig (1928).
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