K with diagonal stroke

K with diagonal stroke is a letter of the Latin alphabet, derived from K with the addition of a diagonal bar through the leg.

Usage

This letter is used in medieval texts as an abbreviation for kalendas, calends, as well as for karta and kartam, a document or writ. The same function could also be performed by "K with stroke", or "K with stroke and diagonal stroke".
In the Breton language, this letter is used, mainly from the fifteenth to the twentieth century, to abbreviate Ker, a prefix used in place names, similar to the Welsh caer.

Computer encodings

Capital and small K with diagonal stroke is encoded in Unicode as of version 5.1, at codepoints U+A742 and U+A743.
It may be transliterated as or as in the name of Emeline K/Bidi, a French Réunion politician with a Breton surname.