U+1E34 "Ḵ" Latin Capital Letter K with Line Below Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+1E34 "Ḵ" Latin Capital Letter K with Line Below is a modified letter used primarily for phonetic transcription in linguistics and for transliterating certain scripts like those used for Semitic languages. It represents a voiceless velar or uvular plosive that may be emphatic or pharyngealized, with the line below the letter indicating a special pronunciation distinct from the plain letter K. This character is part of the Latin Extended Additional block and is encoded for use in scholarly texts where precise phonetic distinctions are necessary, though it does not appear in standard modern Latin alphabets.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1E34 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Capital Letter K with Line 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+0331 Combining Macron Below |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ḵ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ḵ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xB8 0xB4 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1E34 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001E34 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1e34 |
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 | "ḵ" U+1E35 Latin Small Letter K with Line Below |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ḵ" U+1E35 Latin Small Letter K with Line Below |
| Simple Case Folding | "ḵ" U+1E35 Latin Small Letter K with Line Below |
| Case Folding | "ḵ" U+1E35 Latin Small Letter K with Line Below |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ḵ" U+1E35 Latin Small Letter K with Line Below |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ḵ" U+1E35 Latin Small Letter K with Line 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 |