U+A7A2 "Ꞣ" Latin Capital Letter K with Oblique Stroke Unicode Character
U+A7A2 "Ꞣ" Latin Capital Letter K with Oblique Stroke is a historical typographic variant of the Latin letter K, distinguished by a diagonal stroke crossing its upper right stem, which was used primarily in medieval and early modern manuscripts as an abbreviation or scribal shorthand for Latin words such as *kalendae*, *karta*, or other terms beginning with "k." This character belongs to the Latin Extended-D block and was encoded to support the scholarly representation of paleographic texts, enabling precise digital transcription of documents where the stroke served a practical function rather than altering the letter's phonetic value. Its inclusion in Unicode ensures that researchers can faithfully reproduce the original orthographic details of historical writing without resorting to visual approximations.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A7A2 |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | Latin Capital Letter K with Oblique Stroke |
| Block | Latin Extended-D |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ꞣ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ꞣ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0x9E 0xA2 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA7A2 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A7A2 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua7a2 |
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 | "ꞣ" U+A7A3 Latin Small Letter K with Oblique Stroke |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ꞣ" U+A7A3 Latin Small Letter K with Oblique Stroke |
| Simple Case Folding | "ꞣ" U+A7A3 Latin Small Letter K with Oblique Stroke |
| Case Folding | "ꞣ" U+A7A3 Latin Small Letter K with Oblique Stroke |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ꞣ" U+A7A3 Latin Small Letter K with Oblique Stroke |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ꞣ" U+A7A3 Latin Small Letter K with Oblique 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 |