U+1E32 "Ḳ" Latin Capital Letter K with Dot Below Unicode Character

U+1E32 "Ḳ" Latin Capital Letter K with Dot Below is a Latin script grapheme formed by adding a combining dot below to the letter K, used primarily in the transliteration of languages such as Sanskrit and other Indic scripts to represent a retroflex or unaspirated voiced velar stop sound. Its lowercase counterpart is U+1E33 "ḳ", and it appears in standardized transliteration schemes like IAST (International Alphabet of Sanskrit Transliteration) to distinguish phonetic nuances in academic linguistic texts. This character is also found in the orthography of certain African languages, including some dialects of Hausa and Berber, where it indicates a specific consonant articulation, ensuring precise representation of native pronunciation in written form.