Ka with hook

{{Short description|Cyrillic letter used for /q/ in various languages}}

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|script = Cyrillic

|type = Alphabet

|typedesc = ic

|name = Ka with hook

|image = Cyrillic letter Ka with Hook.svg

|imagesize = 140px

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|phonemes = {{IPA|/q/}}, formerly also {{IPA|/kʰ/}} and {{IPA|/kʼ/}}

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Ka with hook (Ӄ ӄ; italics: Ӄ ӄ) is a letter of the Cyrillic script. It is formed from the Cyrillic letter Ka (К к) by the addition of a hook.

Ka with hook is widely used in the alphabets of Siberia and the Russian Far East: Chukchi, Koryak, Alyutor, Itelmen, Yupik, Aleut, Nivkh, Ket, Tofalar and Selkup, where it represents the voiceless uvular plosive {{IPA|/q/}}. It has been sometimes used in the Khanty language as a substitute for Cyrillic letter Ka with descender, Қ қ, which also stands for {{IPA|/q/}}.

It was also used to represent {{IPA|/kʰ/}}, the aspirated voiceless velar plosive, in the Translation Committee's Abkhaz alphabet, which was published around the turn of the 20th century, and to represent {{IPA|/kʼ/}}, the velar ejective stop, in two old Ossetian alphabets, Anders Johan Sjögren's 1844 alphabet and the Teachers' Congress's 1917 alphabet.