U+006B "k" Latin Small Letter K Unicode Character
Unicode Version 18.0
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U+006B "k" Latin Small Letter K is a fundamental alphabetic character in the Unicode standard, representing the lowercase version of the eleventh letter of the basic Latin alphabet. It is encoded in the Basic Latin block (also known as ASCII), where it occupies the exact same code point as it does in the American Standard Code for Information Interchange, ensuring backward compatibility with older text systems. This character is used extensively in English and many other languages that employ the Latin script, typically denoting a voiceless velar plosive sound. In computing, it is a common typographic and data element, appearing in everything from plain text and programming identifiers to mathematical equations and file names.
General Properties
Code Point
U+006B
Name
Latin Small Letter K
Encodings
HTML Decimal Encoding
k
HTML Hex Encoding
k
UTF-8 Encoding
0x6B
UTF-16 Encoding
0x006B
UTF-32 Encoding
0x0000006B
C/C++/Java Escape
\u006b
Unicode Properties
Numeric Value
NaN
Simple Uppercase Code Point
Simple Titlecase Code Point
Uppercase Code Point
Titlecase Code Point
Script Extensions
Latin