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U+24A6 · PARENTHESIZED LATIN SMALL LETTER K

Parenthesized Latin Small Letter K

  • CodepointU+24A6
  • NamePARENTHESIZED LATIN SMALL LETTER K
  • Decimal9382
  • BlockEnclosed Alphanumerics (U+2460–U+24FF)
  • Plane0 — Basic Multilingual Plane
  • ScriptCommon
  • CategorySo — Other Symbol
  • Unicode version1.1 (1993)
  • Bidi classL — Left-to-Right
  • Combining class0
  • East Asian widthA — Ambiguous
  • MirroredNo

About this character

U+24A6 (⒦) is PARENTHESIZED LATIN SMALL LETTER K, a symbol in the Enclosed Alphanumerics block. Its script is Common: it is shared by many writing systems rather than belonging to one. It was added in Unicode 1.1 (1993).

It is a compatibility variant of U+0028 ( + U+006B k + U+0029 ) (compatibility decomposition <compat>). NFC and NFD leave it alone, but NFKC and NFKD replace it with U+0028 ( + U+006B k + U+0029 ). Search engines, identifier checks and username systems that apply NFKC will treat the two as the same text.

Its East Asian Width is Ambiguous: it takes one column in Western contexts and two in East Asian legacy contexts, a common cause of misaligned tables in terminals.

How to type ⒦

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Encodings & escapes

UTF-8 encoder →
UTF-8E2 92 A63 bytes
UTF-1624A61 code unit
UTF-32000024A64 bytes
HTML decimal&#9382;
HTML hex&#x24A6;
CSS\24A6in content: "…"
JavaScript\u24A6
JSON\u24A6
Python\u24A6
Python\N{PARENTHESIZED LATIN SMALL LETTER K}by name
Java / C#\u24A6
C / C++\u24A6universal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP\u{24A6}
Go\u24A6
Ruby\u24A6
Excel / Sheets=UNICHAR(9382)
URL-encoded%E2%92%A6percent-encoded UTF-8
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Normalization forms

Normalizer →
NFCunchanged
NFDunchanged
NFKCU+0028 ( + U+006B k + U+0029 )
NFKDU+0028 ( + U+006B k + U+0029 )
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Nearby in Enclosed Alphanumerics

All in block →
U+24A0⒠Parenthesized Latin Small Letter E U+24A1⒡Parenthesized Latin Small Letter F U+24A2⒢Parenthesized Latin Small Letter G U+24A3⒣Parenthesized Latin Small Letter H U+24A4⒤Parenthesized Latin Small Letter I U+24A5⒥Parenthesized Latin Small Letter J U+24A7⒧Parenthesized Latin Small Letter L U+24A8⒨Parenthesized Latin Small Letter M U+24A9⒩Parenthesized Latin Small Letter N U+24AA⒪Parenthesized Latin Small Letter O U+24AB⒫Parenthesized Latin Small Letter P U+24AC⒬Parenthesized Latin Small Letter Q