U+0198 "Ƙ" Latin Capital Letter K with Hook Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+0198 "Ƙ" Latin Capital Letter K with Hook is a modified version of the standard Latin letter K, distinguished by a small hook attached to the bottom right of the letter's vertical stem. This character is primarily used in the orthography of certain African languages, such as Hausa, where it represents a voiceless uvular plosive or a similarly articulated sound that differs from the standard /k/. Its design ensures that the hook is an integral part of the glyph, allowing it to be clearly distinguished from the plain K in written text, and it is encoded in the Unicode standard to support the accurate digital representation of these linguistic systems.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0198 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Capital Letter K with Hook |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Latin Capital Letter K Hook |
| Block | Latin Extended-B |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ƙ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ƙ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xC6 0x98 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0198 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000198 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0198 |
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 |
| Uppercase | Yes |
| Simple Lowercase Code Point | "ƙ" U+0199 Latin Small Letter K with Hook |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ƙ" U+0199 Latin Small Letter K with Hook |
| Simple Case Folding | "ƙ" U+0199 Latin Small Letter K with Hook |
| Case Folding | "ƙ" U+0199 Latin Small Letter K with Hook |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ƙ" U+0199 Latin Small Letter K with Hook |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ƙ" U+0199 Latin Small Letter K with Hook |
| 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 | Upper |