U+24C0 "Ⓚ" Circled Latin Capital Letter K Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+24C0 "Ⓚ" Circled Latin Capital Letter K is a typographic symbol that represents the uppercase letter "K" enclosed within a circle, belonging to the Enclosed Alphanumerics block of the Unicode standard. Originally designed for use in visual lists, diagrams, or as a stylistic alternative to standard letters, it is often employed in contexts such as labeling items, creating custom bullet points, or denoting sequence numbers in older computer systems and typesetting. This character, like others in its set, derives from legacy character encoding standards and is sometimes used in modern digital environments for decorative or informational purposes, though it may not be universally supported across all fonts or applications.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+24C0 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Circled Latin Capital Letter K |
| Block | Enclosed Alphanumerics |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Circle |
| Decomposition Mapping | "K" U+004B Latin Capital Letter K |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ⓚ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ⓚ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0x93 0x80 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x24C0 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000024C0 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u24c0 |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFD Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Ambiguous (Alphabetic or Ideographic) |
| East Asian Width | Ambiguous |
| Uppercase | Yes |
| Other Uppercase | Yes |
| Simple Lowercase Code Point | "ⓚ" U+24DA Circled Latin Small Letter K |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ⓚ" U+24DA Circled Latin Small Letter K |
| Simple Case Folding | "ⓚ" U+24DA Circled Latin Small Letter K |
| Case Folding | "ⓚ" U+24DA Circled Latin Small Letter K |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "k" U+006B Latin Small Letter K |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "k" U+006B Latin Small Letter K |
| Script | Common |
| Script Extensions | Common |
| Indic Syllabic Category | Other |
| Alphabetic | Yes |
| Other Alphabetic | Yes |
| Vertical Orientation | Upright |
| Grapheme Base | Yes |
| Grapheme Cluster Break | Other |
| Word Break | Alphabetic letter |
| Sentence Break | Upper |