What 𞁚 means
As of 2026, type 1E05A and press Alt+X.
If other hexadecimal digits come right before it, select just 1E05A first.
What does the subscript mean here?
Its exact value depends on the transcription key. In phonology, the study of a language’s sound patterns, a subscript can mark an archiphoneme: a category for sounds whose differences disappear in a particular position. This is a notation mark, not a regular letter in an ordinary spelled word.
Why does this ka sit low?
Its position can change what a transcription says. Raised and lowered Cyrillic letters appear in pronunciation writing before digital text: in a 1905 study of Serbian dialects, scholar Aleksandar Belić used them to mark stronger or weaker vowel coloring. A printed transcription from 1962 shows this subscript ka beside raised ka forms used for other pronunciation details.
The separate character preserves that contrast in text; the same modifier can also take small pronunciation marks, called diacritics.
A specialized mark for linguistic transcription; the source’s notation key controls its reading.
Use ordinary к in a regular Cyrillic word; 𞁚 carries a transcription role.
Don't confuse it with
4Questions people ask
1Why does 𞁚 show as a box on some devices?
Because that device's fonts have no glyph for it. The character is still correct and still copies correctly — the box is a missing glyph, not a broken character.
How to type 𞁚
𞁚\1E05ACodes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.