U+1E31 "ḱ" Latin Small Letter K with Acute Unicode Character

U+1E31 "ḱ" Latin Small Letter K with Acute is a specialized letter used in certain Latin-based orthographies, most notably in the transliteration of Slavic languages and in the writing of some African languages. It represents a palatalized or fronted k sound, where the acute accent diacritic modifies the base letter to indicate a specific phonetic nuance, such as the voiceless palatal plosive /c/ in historical or linguistic contexts. This character is part of the Latin Extended Additional block and is commonly employed in academic transcriptions of Old Church Slavonic, as well as in the standard orthography of languages like Macedonian and in some romanization systems for Cyrillic scripts. Its inclusion allows for precise representation of distinct phonological contrasts in non-ASCII text.