U+01E9 "ǩ" Latin Small Letter K with Caron Unicode Character

U+01E9 "ǩ" Latin Small Letter K with Caron is a specialized alphabetic symbol used primarily in the Gwich'in language, an Indigenous language of northwestern Canada and Alaska, where it represents a distinct speech sound. It is also present in other languages and romanization systems, such as for writing certain Cyrillic-based languages, to indicate a specific consonant pronunciation. The caron, or háček, diacritic above the letter k signals a modification of the standard k sound, often resembling a palatalized or fronted articulation. This character enables accurate written representation of phonemes that would otherwise be ambiguous without the diacritical mark.

General Properties

Code Point	U+01E9
Version Added	1.1
Name	Latin Small Letter K with Caron
Unicode 1.0 Name	Latin Small Letter K Hacek
Block	Latin Extended-B
General Category	Lowercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right
Decomposition Type	Canonical
Decomposition Mapping	"k" U+006B Latin Small Letter K "̌" U+030C Combining Caron

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ǩ
HTML Hex Encoding	ǩ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xC7 0xA9
UTF-16 Encoding	0x01E9
UTF-32 Encoding	0x000001E9
C/C++/Java Escape	\u01e9

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check	Yes
NFKC Quick Check	Yes
Numeric Type	None
Numeric Value	NaN
Line Break	Alphabetic
Lowercase	Yes
Simple Uppercase Code Point	"Ǩ" U+01E8 Latin Capital Letter K with Caron
Simple Titlecase Code Point	"Ǩ" U+01E8 Latin Capital Letter K with Caron
Uppercase Code Point	"Ǩ" U+01E8 Latin Capital Letter K with Caron
Titlecase Code Point	"Ǩ" U+01E8 Latin Capital Letter K with Caron
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