K with stroke and diagonal stroke | |
Letter: | Ꝅ ꝅ |
Imagealt: | Upper and lower case of K with stroke and diagonal stroke |
Unicode: | U+A744, U+A745 |
Fam1: | |
Fam7: | K k |
Type: | alphabet |
Typedesc: | ic |
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.
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]
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]