U+1E30 "Ḱ" Latin Capital Letter K with Acute Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
Ḱ
U+1E30 "Ḱ" Latin Capital Letter K with Acute is a modified character used in several languages, most notably in the transliteration of Sanskrit and other Indic scripts, where it represents a voiceless aspirated velar plosive sound. It is formed by adding an acute accent diacritic above the standard Latin letter K, and its lowercase counterpart is U+1E31 "ḱ". This character appears in academic and linguistic contexts to ensure precise phonetic transcription, and it is also part of the Latin Extended Additional block of the Unicode standard, which supports a wide range of scholarly and minority language orthographies.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1E30 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Capital Letter K with Acute |
| Block | Latin Extended Additional |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "K" U+004B Latin Capital Letter K "́" U+0301 Combining Acute Accent |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ḱ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ḱ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xB8 0xB0 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1E30 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001E30 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1e30 |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKC Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Alphabetic |
| Uppercase | Yes |
| Simple Lowercase Code Point | "ḱ" U+1E31 Latin Small Letter K with Acute |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ḱ" U+1E31 Latin Small Letter K with Acute |
| Simple Case Folding | "ḱ" U+1E31 Latin Small Letter K with Acute |
| Case Folding | "ḱ" U+1E31 Latin Small Letter K with Acute |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ḱ" U+1E31 Latin Small Letter K with Acute |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ḱ" U+1E31 Latin Small Letter K with Acute |
| Script | Latin |
| Script Extensions | Latin |
| 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 |