U+04C4 "ӄ" Cyrillic Small Letter Ka with Hook Unicode Character

U+04C4 "ӄ" Cyrillic Small Letter Ka with Hook is a modified letter from the Cyrillic script, specifically derived from the standard Cyrillic letter Ka (К, к) by adding a hook to its bottom right side, which is used to represent a voiceless uvular plosive sound in various indigenous languages of Siberia and the Russian Far East, such as Itelmen, Koryak, and Chukchi. It corresponds to the capital form U+04C3 "Ӄ" and is distinct from other hooked Cyrillic letters like Ka with descender or Ka with stroke, serving as a crucial orthographic tool for accurately transcribing the phonetic systems of these endangered languages in linguistic documentation and modern writing.

General Properties

Code Point	U+04C4
Version Added	1.1
Name	Cyrillic Small Letter Ka with Hook
Unicode 1.0 Name	Cyrillic Small Letter Ka Hook
Block	Cyrillic
General Category	Lowercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ӄ
HTML Hex Encoding	ӄ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xD3 0x84
UTF-16 Encoding	0x04C4
UTF-32 Encoding	0x000004C4
C/C++/Java Escape	\u04c4

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	"Ӄ" U+04C3 Cyrillic Capital Letter Ka with Hook
Simple Titlecase Code Point	"Ӄ" U+04C3 Cyrillic Capital Letter Ka with Hook
Uppercase Code Point	"Ӄ" U+04C3 Cyrillic Capital Letter Ka with Hook
Titlecase Code Point	"Ӄ" U+04C3 Cyrillic Capital Letter Ka with Hook
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