U+A743 "ꝃ" Latin Small Letter K with Diagonal Stroke Unicode Character

U+A743 "ꝃ" Latin Small Letter K with Diagonal Stroke is a historical typographic variant of the Latin alphabet, primarily used in medieval Latin, Old English, and certain Celtic language manuscripts as a scribal abbreviation or shorthand for the syllable "con" or "cum." This character features a distinctive diagonal line cut through the vertical stem of the lowercase "k," serving as a space-saving device in handwritten texts before the advent of printing. It belongs to the Latin Extended-D block of Unicode, which encodes specialized medievalist and phonetic characters, and is sometimes employed by modern scholars for diplomatic transcription or in digital representations of period documents.

General Properties

Code Point	U+A743
Version Added	5.1
Name	Latin Small Letter K with Diagonal Stroke
Block	Latin Extended-D
General Category	Lowercase 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 0x83
UTF-16 Encoding	0xA743
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000A743
C/C++/Java Escape	\ua743

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	"Ꝃ" U+A742 Latin Capital Letter K with Diagonal Stroke
Simple Titlecase Code Point	"Ꝃ" U+A742 Latin Capital Letter K with Diagonal Stroke
Uppercase Code Point	"Ꝃ" U+A742 Latin Capital Letter K with Diagonal Stroke
Titlecase Code Point	"Ꝃ" U+A742 Latin Capital Letter K with Diagonal 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