U+029E "ʞ" Latin Small Letter Turned K Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+029E "ʞ" Latin Small Letter Turned K is a typographic symbol originally intended for use in the International Phonetic Alphabet to represent a voiceless velular or uvular click, though it was never officially adopted for that purpose and is now considered obsolete or extraneous in phonetic transcription. It is formed by rotating the standard Latin lowercase 'k' 180 degrees, and its primary modern use is in academic discussions of Unicode phonetic symbols, as a curiosity in linguistics, or as a decorative character in text.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+029E |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Small Letter Turned K |
| Block | IPA Extensions |
| General Category | Lowercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ʞ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ʞ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xCA 0x9E |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x029E |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000029E |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u029e |
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 | "Ʞ" U+A7B0 Latin Capital Letter Turned K |
| Simple Titlecase Code Point | "Ʞ" U+A7B0 Latin Capital Letter Turned K |
| Uppercase Code Point | "Ʞ" U+A7B0 Latin Capital Letter Turned K |
| Titlecase Code Point | "Ʞ" U+A7B0 Latin Capital Letter Turned K |
| 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 |