Cyrillic Small Letter Ka With Descender

Group: World scripts

Keywords

scripts

About this character

Cyrillic Small Letter Ka With Descender belongs to the World scripts group and is encoded at U+049B. It was added in Unicode 0.0.

Shortcode

Chat apps such as Slack, Discord and GitHub accept this shortcode instead of the character itself.

Technical codes

Code point: U+049B
Hex: 049B
Decimal: 1179
HTML: қ
CSS: \49B
JavaScript: \u049B
Python: \u049B
UTF-8: D2 9B

The same character is drawn differently by each operating system and font.

Questions

Why does this emoji look different on my phone?

Unicode standardises the meaning of a character, not its drawing. Apple, Google, Microsoft and Samsung each ship their own artwork, so the same code point changes shape between devices.

Does copying work everywhere?

The character is copied as plain text, so it pastes into any app that accepts text. If the receiving app has no font for it, you will see an empty box instead.