U+1E30 "Ḱ" Latin Capital Letter K with Acute Unicode Character
Unicode Version 18.0
Source: Browser Default
U+1E30 "Ḱ" Latin Capital Letter K with Acute is a modified character used in several languages, most notably in the transliteration of Sanskrit and other Indic scripts, where it represents a voiceless aspirated velar plosive sound. It is formed by adding an acute accent diacritic above the standard Latin letter K, and its lowercase counterpart is U+1E31 "ḱ". This character appears in academic and linguistic contexts to ensure precise phonetic transcription, and it is also part of the Latin Extended Additional block of the Unicode standard, which supports a wide range of scholarly and minority language orthographies.
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Latin Small Letter K with Acute
General Properties
Code Point
U+1E30
Name
Latin Capital Letter K with Acute
Decomposition Mapping
Encodings
HTML Decimal Encoding
Ḱ
HTML Hex Encoding
Ḱ
UTF-8 Encoding
0xE1 0xB8 0xB0
UTF-16 Encoding
0x1E30
UTF-32 Encoding
0x00001E30
C/C++/Java Escape
\u1e30
Unicode Properties
Numeric Value
NaN
Simple Lowercase Code Point
Lowercase Code Point
Simple Case Folding
Case Folding
NFKC Casefold
NFKC Simple Casefold
Script Extensions
Latin