U+0199 "ƙ" Latin Small Letter K with Hook Unicode Character
Unicode Version 18.0
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U+0199 "ƙ" Latin Small Letter K with Hook is a typographic variant of the standard Latin letter K, distinguished by a small hook attached to the lower right side of the character. It is used in the orthography of several African languages, such as Hausa, where it represents an ejective or implosive velar stop sound, often contrasting with the plain "k" to indicate a different phonetic value. This character is part of the Latin Extended-B block and is encoded for digital text to accurately represent these specific linguistic sounds in writing systems.
General Properties
Code Point
U+0199
Name
Latin Small Letter K with Hook
Unicode 1.0 Name
Latin Small Letter K Hook
Encodings
HTML Decimal Encoding
ƙ
HTML Hex Encoding
ƙ
UTF-8 Encoding
0xC6 0x99
UTF-16 Encoding
0x0199
UTF-32 Encoding
0x00000199
C/C++/Java Escape
\u0199
Unicode Properties
Numeric Value
NaN
Simple Uppercase Code Point
Simple Titlecase Code Point
Uppercase Code Point
Titlecase Code Point
Script Extensions
Latin