Unicode Character "K" U+212A Kelvin Sign
Unicode Version 15.1
K
Summary
The unicode character "K" at code point U+212A is Kelvin Sign. It is a character in the Letterlike Symbols block and is part of the Latin script. The character is an uppercase letter. The UTF-8 encoding of "K" is 0xE2 0x84 0xAA and the UTF-16 encoding is 0x212A.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+212A |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Kelvin Sign |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Degrees Kelvin |
| Block | Letterlike Symbols |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "K" U+004B Latin Capital Letter K |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | K |
| HTML Hex Encoding | K |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0x84 0xAA |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x212A |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000212A |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u212a |
Unicode Properties
| Full Composition Exclusion | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Alphabetic |
| Uppercase | Yes |
| Simple Lowercase Code Point | "k" U+006B Latin Small Letter K |
| Lowercase Code Point | "k" U+006B Latin Small Letter K |
| Simple Case Folding | "k" U+006B Latin Small Letter K |
| Case Folding | "k" U+006B Latin Small Letter K |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "k" U+006B Latin Small Letter K |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "k" U+006B Latin Small Letter K |
| Script | Latin |
| Script Extensions | Latin |
| Indic Syllabic Category | Other |
| ID Start | Yes |
| XID Start | Yes |
| ID Continue | Yes |
| XID Continue | Yes |
| Alphabetic | Yes |
| Vertical Orientation | Rotated |
| Grapheme Base | Yes |
| Grapheme Cluster Break | Other |
| Word Break | Alphabetic letter |
| Sentence Break | Upper |