U+104BC "𐒼" Osage Capital Letter Ka Unicode Character

U+104BC "𐒼" Osage Capital Letter Ka is a glyph used in the modern Osage alphabet, representing the consonant sound /k/ and corresponding to the Latin letter K. It is part of the Osage script, which was officially added to the Unicode Standard in 2014 with the release of version 7.0, following the development of a standardized orthography for the Osage language spoken by the Osage Nation in Oklahoma. This uppercase form is paired with a lowercase version (U+104E6 "𐓦") and is typically used in writing texts, educational materials, and cultural documentation to preserve and revitalize the indigenous language.

General Properties

Code Point	U+104BC
Version Added	9.0
Name	Osage Capital Letter Ka
Block	Osage
General Category	Uppercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	𐒼
HTML Hex Encoding	𐒼
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x90 0x92 0xBC
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD801 0xDCBC
UTF-32 Encoding	0x000104BC
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud801\udcbc

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
Uppercase	Yes
Simple Lowercase Code Point	"𐓤" U+104E4 Osage Small Letter Ka
Lowercase Code Point	"𐓤" U+104E4 Osage Small Letter Ka
Simple Case Folding	"𐓤" U+104E4 Osage Small Letter Ka
Case Folding	"𐓤" U+104E4 Osage Small Letter Ka
Cased	Yes
Changes When Casefolded	Yes
Changes When Casemapped	Yes
Changes When Lowercased	Yes
Changes When NFKC Casefolded	Yes
NFKC Casefold	"𐓤" U+104E4 Osage Small Letter Ka
NFKC Simple Casefold	"𐓤" U+104E4 Osage Small Letter Ka
Script	Osage
Script Extensions	Osage
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	Upper