U+A745 "ꝅ" Latin Small Letter K with Stroke and Diagonal Stroke Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+A745 "ꝅ" Latin Small Letter K with Stroke and Diagonal Stroke is a specialized typographic glyph used primarily in historical medieval and early modern Latin orthography, particularly in scribal abbreviations and manuscript traditions. It represents a modified form of the letter 'k' that was employed to denote a specific phonetic value or to serve as a shorthand in various European languages, such as Old English or Old Norse, where the additional diagonal stroke distinguished it from the standard 'k' or indicated a particular vowel or consonant shift. This character is part of the Latin Extended-D block and is rarely encountered in modern digital text, but it is preserved in Unicode to support scholarly transcription and paleographic research, allowing for accurate representation of historical documents.

General Properties

Code Point U+A745
Version Added 5.1
Name Latin Small Letter K with Stroke and Diagonal Stroke
Block Latin Extended-D
General Category Lowercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ꝅ
HTML Hex Encoding ꝅ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEA 0x9D 0x85
UTF-16 Encoding 0xA745
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000A745
C/C++/Java Escape \ua745

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 "Ꝅ" U+A744 Latin Capital Letter K with Stroke and Diagonal Stroke
Simple Titlecase Code Point "Ꝅ" U+A744 Latin Capital Letter K with Stroke and Diagonal Stroke
Uppercase Code Point "Ꝅ" U+A744 Latin Capital Letter K with Stroke and Diagonal Stroke
Titlecase Code Point "Ꝅ" U+A744 Latin Capital Letter K with Stroke and 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