U+1E32 "Ḳ" Latin Capital Letter K with Dot Below Unicode Character
U+1E32 "Ḳ" Latin Capital Letter K with Dot Below is a Latin script grapheme formed by adding a combining dot below to the letter K, used primarily in the transliteration of languages such as Sanskrit and other Indic scripts to represent a retroflex or unaspirated voiced velar stop sound. Its lowercase counterpart is U+1E33 "ḳ", and it appears in standardized transliteration schemes like IAST (International Alphabet of Sanskrit Transliteration) to distinguish phonetic nuances in academic linguistic texts. This character is also found in the orthography of certain African languages, including some dialects of Hausa and Berber, where it indicates a specific consonant articulation, ensuring precise representation of native pronunciation in written form.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1E32 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Capital Letter K with Dot Below |
| 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+0323 Combining Dot Below |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ḳ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ḳ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xB8 0xB2 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1E32 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001E32 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1e32 |
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 | "ḳ" U+1E33 Latin Small Letter K with Dot Below |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ḳ" U+1E33 Latin Small Letter K with Dot Below |
| Simple Case Folding | "ḳ" U+1E33 Latin Small Letter K with Dot Below |
| Case Folding | "ḳ" U+1E33 Latin Small Letter K with Dot Below |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ḳ" U+1E33 Latin Small Letter K with Dot Below |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ḳ" U+1E33 Latin Small Letter K with Dot Below |
| 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 |