U+2C6A "ⱪ" Latin Small Letter K with Descender Unicode Character

U+2C6A "ⱪ" Latin Small Letter K with Descender is a typographic variant of the letter K, distinguished by a descender that extends below the baseline, and is primarily used in specific orthographies for the Nivkh and Aari languages, as well as in some forms of romanization for Cyrillic texts. This character represents a unique phoneme, often a voiceless velar plosive with a distinct articulation, and it was added to the Unicode Standard as part of the Latin Extended-C block to support linguistic documentation and digital text processing for these minority languages. The descender serves a critical phonetic function, differentiating this sound from the standard K in writing systems that require precise representation of indigenous speech.

General Properties

Code Point	U+2C6A
Version Added	5.0
Name	Latin Small Letter K with Descender
Block	Latin Extended-C
General Category	Lowercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ⱪ
HTML Hex Encoding	ⱪ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE2 0xB1 0xAA
UTF-16 Encoding	0x2C6A
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00002C6A
C/C++/Java Escape	\u2c6a

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check	Yes
NFD Quick Check	Yes
NFKC Quick Check	Yes
NFKD Quick Check	Yes
Numeric Type	None
Numeric Value	NaN
Line Break	Alphabetic
Lowercase	Yes
Simple Uppercase Code Point	"Ⱪ" U+2C69 Latin Capital Letter K with Descender
Simple Titlecase Code Point	"Ⱪ" U+2C69 Latin Capital Letter K with Descender
Uppercase Code Point	"Ⱪ" U+2C69 Latin Capital Letter K with Descender
Titlecase Code Point	"Ⱪ" U+2C69 Latin Capital Letter K with Descender
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