U+1E33 "ḳ" Latin Small Letter K with Dot Below Unicode Character
U+1E33 "ḳ" Latin Small Letter K with Dot Below is a modified version of the standard Latin letter K, distinguished by a small dot placed directly beneath it. This diacritical mark indicates a specific phonological value, most commonly representing an ejective or a particularly pronounced velar stop sound in various languages. It is used in the orthographies of several African languages, such as in the transcription of some Semitic languages like Ge'ez and occasionally in academic transliteration systems for languages like Arabic or Sanskrit to denote a retroflex or emphatic k sound. The character belongs to the Latin Extended Additional block in Unicode, which houses a wide range of accented and diacritic forms for scholarly and linguistic writing.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1E33 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Small Letter K with Dot Below |
| Block | Latin Extended Additional |
| General Category | Lowercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "k" U+006B Latin Small Letter K "̣" U+0323 Combining Dot Below |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ḳ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ḳ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xB8 0xB3 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1E33 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001E33 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1e33 |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKC Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Alphabetic |
| Lowercase | Yes |
| Simple Uppercase Code Point | "Ḳ" U+1E32 Latin Capital Letter K with Dot Below |
| Simple Titlecase Code Point | "Ḳ" U+1E32 Latin Capital Letter K with Dot Below |
| Uppercase Code Point | "Ḳ" U+1E32 Latin Capital Letter K with Dot Below |
| Titlecase Code Point | "Ḳ" U+1E32 Latin Capital Letter K with Dot Below |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Titlecased | Yes |
| Changes When Uppercased | Yes |
| 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 | Lower |