U+043A "к" Cyrillic Small Letter Ka Unicode Character

U+043A "к" Cyrillic Small Letter Ka is the lowercase form of the Cyrillic letter Ka, which represents the voiceless velar plosive sound /k/, similar to the English letter "k" in "kite." It is part of the Cyrillic script used in many languages including Russian, Ukrainian, Bulgarian, and Serbian, and its uppercase counterpart is U+041A "К." The letter's shape resembles a smaller version of the Latin "K," though it derives from the Greek letter kappa, and it is the twelfth letter in the Russian alphabet. In Unicode, it belongs to the Cyrillic block and is commonly employed in digital text to represent the same phonetic value across various Slavic and non-Slavic languages that use the Cyrillic writing system.

General Properties

Code Point	U+043A
Version Added	1.1
Name	Cyrillic Small Letter Ka
Block	Cyrillic
General Category	Lowercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	к
HTML Hex Encoding	к
UTF-8 Encoding	0xD0 0xBA
UTF-16 Encoding	0x043A
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000043A
C/C++/Java Escape	\u043a

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
East Asian Width	Ambiguous
Lowercase	Yes
Simple Uppercase Code Point	"К" U+041A Cyrillic Capital Letter Ka
Simple Titlecase Code Point	"К" U+041A Cyrillic Capital Letter Ka
Uppercase Code Point	"К" U+041A Cyrillic Capital Letter Ka
Titlecase Code Point	"К" U+041A Cyrillic Capital Letter Ka
Cased	Yes
Changes When Casemapped	Yes
Changes When Titlecased	Yes
Changes When Uppercased	Yes
Script	Cyrillic
Script Extensions	Cyrillic
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