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Kazakh Alphabet (Cyrillic)

The letters and characters of Kazakh written in the Cyrillic script, in order — every standard character with its name and codepoint, the additional and punctuation sets, and exactly how many fonts include them. About 12,966,989 people read or write it across 2 countries.

Kazakh is also written in: (Arabic)

833Fonts cover the standard set
42Standard characters
12,966,989People
2Countries

Standard characters

The minimal set of characters required for Kazakh — the language's alphabet, in its traditional order. Tap a character to copy it; each name opens the full character page. The Fonts column counts how many fonts include each letter, in the same order as the letters and codepoints; an accented form under a letter gets its own codepoint and count line beneath it.

LetterNameCodepointsFontsper letter, in order
Аа A U+0410 · U+0430 2,034 / 1,987
Әә Schwa U+04D8 · U+04D9 1,121 / 1,162
Бб Be U+0411 · U+0431 2,019 / 1,951
Вв Ve U+0412 · U+0432 2,034 / 1,951
Гг Ghe U+0413 · U+0433 2,023 / 1,956
Ғғ Ghe With Stroke U+0492 · U+0493 951 / 948
Дд De U+0414 · U+0434 2,006 / 1,953
Ее Ёё Ie U+0415 · U+0435 U+0401 · U+0451 2,035 / 1,976 1,944 / 1,911
Жж Zhe U+0416 · U+0436 2,010 / 1,948
Зз Ze U+0417 · U+0437 2,024 / 1,953
Ии Йй I U+0418 · U+0438 U+0419 · U+0439 2,018 / 1,963 1,994 / 1,942
Кк Ka U+041A · U+043A 2,021 / 1,951
Ққ Ka With Descender U+049A · U+049B 869 / 869
Лл El U+041B · U+043B 2,013 / 1,953
Мм Em U+041C · U+043C 2,021 / 1,943
Нн En U+041D · U+043D 2,025 / 1,958
Ңң En With Descender U+04A2 · U+04A3 962 / 958
Оо O U+041E · U+043E 2,026 / 1,986
Өө Barred O U+04E8 · U+04E9 1,142 / 1,142
Пп Pe U+041F · U+043F 2,038 / 1,966
Рр Er U+0420 · U+0440 2,027 / 1,974
Сс Es U+0421 · U+0441 2,027 / 1,977
Тт Te U+0422 · U+0442 2,024 / 1,956
Уу U U+0423 · U+0443 2,015 / 1,967
Ұұ Straight U With Stroke U+04B0 · U+04B1 1,045 / 1,043
Үү Straight U U+04AE · U+04AF 1,115 / 1,092
Фф Ef U+0424 · U+0444 2,006 / 1,944
Хх Ha U+0425 · U+0445 2,019 / 1,965
Һһ Shha U+04BA · U+04BB 1,064 / 1,056
Цц Tse U+0426 · U+0446 1,991 / 1,939
Чч Che U+0427 · U+0447 2,005 / 1,939
Шш Sha U+0428 · U+0448 1,999 / 1,945
Щщ Shcha U+0429 · U+0449 1,986 / 1,929
Ъъ Hard Sign U+042A · U+044A 1,987 / 1,928
Ыы Yeru U+042B · U+044B 1,990 / 1,929
Іі Byelorussian-Ukrainian I U+0406 · U+0456 1,805 / 1,767
Ьь Soft Sign U+042C · U+044C 1,995 / 1,935
Ээ E U+042D · U+044D 1,998 / 1,929
Юю Yu U+042E · U+044E 1,990 / 1,932
Яя Ya U+042F · U+044F 2,005 / 1,938

Punctuation characters

The marks used to separate sentences and to clarify meaning.

-U+002D‐U+2010‑U+2011–U+2013—U+2014,U+002C;U+003B:U+003A!U+0021?U+003F.U+002E…U+2026'U+0027‘U+2018’U+2019"U+0022“U+201C”U+201D«U+00AB»U+00BB(U+0028)U+0029[U+005B]U+005D{U+007B}U+007D§U+00A7@U+0040*U+002A/U+002F&U+0026#U+0023

Where Kazakh (Cyrillic) is read

Countries shaded by the share of their population that reads or writes Kazakh in the Cyrillic script. The map is zoomed to the region where at least 1% of a country's people read it; neighbouring countries are shown unshaded for context.

50% or more of the country 10–50% 1–10% under 1% not listed for this language

Estimated readers — share of each country's population (CLDR).

CountryEstimated readersShare of population
Kazakhstan 12,966,400 64%
Türkiye 589 0%

Kazakh (Cyrillic) — facts

Font coverage 833 of 137,179 fonts include every one of the 42 standard characters; 833 include the standard and additional sets together. Counts are exact for the snapshot of 21 October 2026.
Script Cyrillic
Unicode blocks Basic Latin, Latin-1 Supplement, Cyrillic, General Punctuation
People About 12,966,989 people read or write Kazakh in the Cyrillic script — mostly in Kazakhstan, Türkiye.
Also written in Kazakh (Arabic)

Data: Unicode CLDR exemplar characters (CLDR 48.2.0) and CLDR territory population data. Font counts: snapshot of 21 October 2026.