U+006B "k" Latin Small Letter K Unicode Character

U+006B "k" Latin Small Letter K is a fundamental alphabetic character in the Unicode standard, representing the lowercase version of the eleventh letter of the basic Latin alphabet. It is encoded in the Basic Latin block (also known as ASCII), where it occupies the exact same code point as it does in the American Standard Code for Information Interchange, ensuring backward compatibility with older text systems. This character is used extensively in English and many other languages that employ the Latin script, typically denoting a voiceless velar plosive sound. In computing, it is a common typographic and data element, appearing in everything from plain text and programming identifiers to mathematical equations and file names.

General Properties

Code Point	U+006B
Version Added	1.1
Name	Latin Small Letter K
Block	Basic Latin
General Category	Lowercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	k
HTML Hex Encoding	k
UTF-8 Encoding	0x6B
UTF-16 Encoding	0x006B
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000006B
C/C++/Java Escape	\u006b

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check	Yes
NFD Quick Check	Yes
NFKC Quick Check	Yes
NFKD Quick Check	Yes
Numeric Type	None
Numeric Value	NaN
Line Break	Alphabetic
East Asian Width	Narrow
Lowercase	Yes
Simple Uppercase Code Point	"K" U+004B Latin Capital Letter K
Simple Titlecase Code Point	"K" U+004B Latin Capital Letter K
Uppercase Code Point	"K" U+004B Latin Capital Letter K
Titlecase Code Point	"K" U+004B Latin Capital Letter K
Cased	Yes
Changes When Casemapped	Yes
Changes When Titlecased	Yes
Changes When Uppercased	Yes
Script	Latin
Script Extensions	Latin
Indic Syllabic Category	Other
ID Start	Yes
XID Start	Yes
ID Continue	Yes
XID Continue	Yes
Alphabetic	Yes
Vertical Orientation	Rotated
Grapheme Base	Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break	Other
Word Break	Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break	Lower