is a syllable in the Javanese script that represents the sound /kɔ/, /ka/. It is transliterated to Latin as "ka", and sometimes in Indonesian orthography as "ko". It has two other forms (pasangan), which are and (if followed by and several other glyphs), but are represented by a single Unicode code point, U+A98F.Campbell, George L. Compendium of the World's Languages. Vol. 1. New York: Routledge, 2000.Soemarmo, Marmo. "Javanese Script." Ohio Working Papers in Linguistics and Language Teaching 14.Winter (1995): 69-103.Daniels, Peter T and William Bright. The World's Writing Systems. Ed. Peter T Daniels and William Bright. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996.
Pasangan Its pasangan form , is located on the bottom side of the previous syllable. For example, - anake (his/her child), which, although transliterated with a single 'k', is written using double '' because the root word ('anak', child) ends in ''.
The pasangan has two forms, the other is used when the pasangan is followed by , , , , or . For example, - anakku (my child)
Extended form The letter has a murda form, which is .
Using cecak telu (), the syllable represents Arabic (/ħ/ or /x/).
with a cerek () is called Ka sasak.
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Unicode block
Javanese script was added to the Unicode Standard in October, 2009 with the release of version 5.2.
See also Ka (Indic) Devanagari ka
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