U+0199 "ƙ" Latin Small Letter K with Hook Unicode Character

U+0199 "ƙ" Latin Small Letter K with Hook is a typographic variant of the standard Latin letter K, distinguished by a small hook attached to the lower right side of the character. It is used in the orthography of several African languages, such as Hausa, where it represents an ejective or implosive velar stop sound, often contrasting with the plain "k" to indicate a different phonetic value. This character is part of the Latin Extended-B block and is encoded for digital text to accurately represent these specific linguistic sounds in writing systems.

General Properties

Code Point	U+0199
Version Added	1.1
Name	Latin Small Letter K with Hook
Unicode 1.0 Name	Latin Small Letter K Hook
Block	Latin Extended-B
General Category	Lowercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ƙ
HTML Hex Encoding	ƙ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xC6 0x99
UTF-16 Encoding	0x0199
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00000199
C/C++/Java Escape	\u0199

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
Lowercase	Yes
Simple Uppercase Code Point	"Ƙ" U+0198 Latin Capital Letter K with Hook
Simple Titlecase Code Point	"Ƙ" U+0198 Latin Capital Letter K with Hook
Uppercase Code Point	"Ƙ" U+0198 Latin Capital Letter K with Hook
Titlecase Code Point	"Ƙ" U+0198 Latin Capital Letter K with Hook
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