U+A740 "Ꝁ" Latin Capital Letter K with Stroke Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
Ꝁ
U+A740 "Ꝁ" Latin Capital Letter K with Stroke is a specialized typographic variant of the letter K, distinguished by a horizontal stroke through its upper stem, designed primarily for medieval and early modern scribal abbreviations. This character was historically used in Latin and Old English manuscripts to represent the word "kalendas" or "caput" (head) in shorthand, often appearing in calendrical or legal texts. It belongs to the Latin Extended-D block, which encodes medievalist and scholarly characters, and serves as the uppercase counterpart to U+A741 (ꝁ). While rare in modern writing, it remains essential for accurate digital reproduction of historical documents and philological research.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A740 |
| Version Added | 5.1 |
| Name | Latin Capital Letter K with Stroke |
| Block | Latin Extended-D |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ꝁ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ꝁ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0x9D 0x80 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA740 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A740 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua740 |
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 |
| Uppercase | Yes |
| Simple Lowercase Code Point | "ꝁ" U+A741 Latin Small Letter K with Stroke |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ꝁ" U+A741 Latin Small Letter K with Stroke |
| Simple Case Folding | "ꝁ" U+A741 Latin Small Letter K with Stroke |
| Case Folding | "ꝁ" U+A741 Latin Small Letter K with Stroke |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ꝁ" U+A741 Latin Small Letter K with Stroke |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ꝁ" U+A741 Latin Small Letter K with Stroke |
| 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 |