U+0138 "ĸ" Latin Small Letter Kra Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ĸ
U+0138 "ĸ" Latin Small Letter Kra is a distinct letter used primarily in the orthography of the Greenlandic language, where it represents a voiceless uvular fricative sound, similar to the "ch" in Scottish "loch." Originally derived from the Latin alphabet, this character was also historically employed in some other languages of the Arctic region. Its uppercase counterpart is not part of standard Unicode, making the letter case-sensitive in digital text. In modern Greenlandic, the character has largely been replaced by the digraph "q" or the letter "k" in certain contexts, but it remains an important symbol for linguistic and historical documentation.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0138 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Small Letter Kra |
| Block | Latin Extended-A |
| General Category | Lowercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ĸ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ĸ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xC4 0xB8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0138 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000138 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0138 |