U+01E8 "Ǩ" Latin Capital Letter K with Caron Unicode Character

U+01E8 "Ǩ" Latin Capital Letter K with Caron is a specialized letter used in the Latin extended B block, representing a "K" with a caron (or háček) diacritic placed above it. This character is primarily employed in certain phonetic transcription systems and in the orthography of a few languages, such as in some Indigenous languages of the Americas and in the romanization of non Latin scripts, where it typically denotes a palatalized or slightly altered velar plosive sound. Its lowercase counterpart is U+01E9 "ǩ", and it appears in scholarly linguistic contexts to provide precise phonological distinctions, though it is not a standard part of major European alphabets like those of English or French.