U+1090A "𐤊" Phoenician Letter Kaf Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐤊
U+1090A "𐤊" Phoenician Letter Kaf is a glyph from the ancient Phoenician abjad, representing the consonant sound /k/, akin to the English letter K. As the eleventh letter of the Phoenician alphabet, its name "kaf" derives from the Semitic word for "palm of the hand," a shape it visually resembles in its earliest forms. This letter is historically significant as a direct ancestor of the Greek letter Kappa, which later evolved into the Latin letter K and the Cyrillic letter К, making it a foundational symbol in the development of Western writing systems. Its inclusion in the Unicode standard since version 10.0 in 2017 allows for the digital preservation and scholarly study of this ancient script.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1090A |
| Version Added | 5.0 |
| Name | Phoenician Letter Kaf |
| Block | Phoenician |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Right To Left |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐤊 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐤊 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0xA4 0x8A |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD802 0xDD0A |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001090A |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud802\udd0a |