U+01E8 "Ǩ" Latin Capital Letter K with Caron Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+01E8 "Ǩ" Latin Capital Letter K with Caron is a specialized letter used in the Latin extended B block, representing a "K" with a caron (or háček) diacritic placed above it. This character is primarily employed in certain phonetic transcription systems and in the orthography of a few languages, such as in some Indigenous languages of the Americas and in the romanization of non Latin scripts, where it typically denotes a palatalized or slightly altered velar plosive sound. Its lowercase counterpart is U+01E9 "ǩ", and it appears in scholarly linguistic contexts to provide precise phonological distinctions, though it is not a standard part of major European alphabets like those of English or French.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+01E8 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Capital Letter K with Caron |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Latin Capital Letter K Hacek |
| Block | Latin Extended-B |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "K" U+004B Latin Capital Letter K "̌" U+030C Combining Caron |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ǩ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ǩ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xC7 0xA8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x01E8 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000001E8 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u01e8 |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKC Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Alphabetic |
| Uppercase | Yes |
| Simple Lowercase Code Point | "ǩ" U+01E9 Latin Small Letter K with Caron |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ǩ" U+01E9 Latin Small Letter K with Caron |
| Simple Case Folding | "ǩ" U+01E9 Latin Small Letter K with Caron |
| Case Folding | "ǩ" U+01E9 Latin Small Letter K with Caron |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ǩ" U+01E9 Latin Small Letter K with Caron |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ǩ" U+01E9 Latin Small Letter K with Caron |
| 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 |