U+A741 "ꝁ" Latin Small Letter K with Stroke Unicode Character

U+A741 "ꝁ" Latin Small Letter K with Stroke is a specialized typographic glyph used primarily in medieval Latin manuscripts and early modern orthographies, where the horizontal stroke through the ascender of the letter k served as a common abbreviation mark. This stroke typically indicates the omission of a following letter or syllable, such as in the Latin word "kꝁ" for "kirk" or in other scribal contractions, making it a valuable character for scholars of historical texts and paleography. While rarely used in modern writing, it remains encoded in Unicode to support accurate digital representation of these older documents.

General Properties

Code Point	U+A741
Version Added	5.1
Name	Latin Small Letter K with Stroke
Block	Latin Extended-D
General Category	Lowercase 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 0x81
UTF-16 Encoding	0xA741
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000A741
C/C++/Java Escape	\ua741

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	"Ꝁ" U+A740 Latin Capital Letter K with Stroke
Simple Titlecase Code Point	"Ꝁ" U+A740 Latin Capital Letter K with Stroke
Uppercase Code Point	"Ꝁ" U+A740 Latin Capital Letter K with Stroke
Titlecase Code Point	"Ꝁ" U+A740 Latin Capital Letter K with Stroke
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