U+1E05A "𞁚" Cyrillic Subscript Small Letter Ka Unicode Character

U+1E05A "𞁚" Cyrillic Subscript Small Letter Ka is a specialized typographic glyph designed for use in historical or linguistic texts, where it appears as a subscript form of the Cyrillic letter Ka, positioned below the baseline to serve as a diacritic or phonetic modifier. This character is part of the Cyrillic Extended D block, which was introduced in Unicode version 14.0 to support scholarly transcription and precise notation of Old Church Slavonic or other early Slavic manuscripts. Its inclusion ensures that researchers can accurately represent subscripted consonants and other fine-grained orthographic details without relying on ad hoc formatting or private use characters, thereby preserving the integrity of the original written sources.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1E05A
Version Added	15.0
Name	Cyrillic Subscript Small Letter Ka
Block	Cyrillic Extended-D
General Category	Modifier Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right
Decomposition Type	Sub
Decomposition Mapping	"к" U+043A Cyrillic Small Letter Ka

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	𞁚
HTML Hex Encoding	𞁚
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x9E 0x81 0x9A
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD838 0xDC5A
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0001E05A
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud838\udc5a

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check	Yes
NFD Quick Check	Yes
Numeric Type	None
Numeric Value	NaN
Line Break	Alphabetic
Lowercase	Yes
Other Lowercase	Yes
Case Ignorable	Yes
Cased	Yes
Changes When NFKC Casefolded	Yes
NFKC Casefold	"к" U+043A Cyrillic Small Letter Ka
NFKC Simple Casefold	"к" U+043A Cyrillic Small Letter Ka
Script	Cyrillic
Script Extensions	Cyrillic
Indic Syllabic Category	Other
ID Start	Yes
XID Start	Yes
ID Continue	Yes
XID Continue	Yes
Diacritic	Yes
Alphabetic	Yes
Vertical Orientation	Rotated
Grapheme Base	Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break	Other
Word Break	Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break	Lower