U+051F "ԟ" Cyrillic Small Letter Aleut Ka Unicode Character

U+051F "ԟ" Cyrillic Small Letter Aleut Ka is a specialized letter used in the Cyrillic script for writing the Aleut language, which is spoken by communities in Alaska and Russia. This character represents a specific consonant sound distinct from the standard Russian "K," and it is derived from a modification of the Cyrillic letter Ka to accommodate phonetic needs unique to Aleut orthography. Its uppercase counterpart is U+051E "Ԟ" Cyrillic Capital Letter Aleut Ka, and the character is encoded in the Cyrillic Supplement block of Unicode to support linguistic documentation and revitalization efforts for endangered languages.

General Properties

Code Point	U+051F
Version Added	5.1
Name	Cyrillic Small Letter Aleut Ka
Block	Cyrillic Supplement
General Category	Lowercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ԟ
HTML Hex Encoding	ԟ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xD4 0x9F
UTF-16 Encoding	0x051F
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000051F
C/C++/Java Escape	\u051f

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	"Ԟ" U+051E Cyrillic Capital Letter Aleut Ka
Simple Titlecase Code Point	"Ԟ" U+051E Cyrillic Capital Letter Aleut Ka
Uppercase Code Point	"Ԟ" U+051E Cyrillic Capital Letter Aleut Ka
Titlecase Code Point	"Ԟ" U+051E Cyrillic Capital Letter Aleut 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