U+A742 "Ꝃ" Latin Capital Letter K with Diagonal Stroke Unicode Character
U+A742 "Ꝃ" Latin Capital Letter K with Diagonal Stroke is a historical typographic variant of the Latin letter K used primarily in medieval manuscripts and early printed texts, particularly in abbreviations or shorthand systems. A single diagonal line runs through the upper portion of the K, often from the top right of the vertical stem downward toward the left arm, functioning as a scribal contraction mark. This specific character was commonly employed in Latin and Old English documents to represent words like "Kalendas" or other terms beginning with "Kal," serving as a space-saving device for scribes. It belongs to the Latin Extended-D block of Unicode, which was designed to support scholarly transcription of medieval and classical texts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A742 |
| Version Added | 5.1 |
| Name | Latin Capital Letter K with Diagonal Stroke |
| Block | Latin Extended-D |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ꝃ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ꝃ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0x9D 0x82 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA742 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A742 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua742 |
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 | "ꝃ" U+A743 Latin Small Letter K with Diagonal Stroke |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ꝃ" U+A743 Latin Small Letter K with Diagonal Stroke |
| Simple Case Folding | "ꝃ" U+A743 Latin Small Letter K with Diagonal Stroke |
| Case Folding | "ꝃ" U+A743 Latin Small Letter K with Diagonal Stroke |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ꝃ" U+A743 Latin Small Letter K with Diagonal Stroke |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ꝃ" U+A743 Latin Small Letter K with Diagonal 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 |