Unicode Character "K" (U+212A)

The character K (Kelvin Sign) is represented by the Unicode codepoint U+212A. It is encoded in the Letterlike Symbols block, which belongs to the Basic Multilingual Plane. It was added to Unicode in version 1.1 (June, 1993). It is HTML encoded as K.

Main Unicode Properties

Name Kelvin Sign
Unicode Codepoint U+212A
Unicode Version 1.1 (June, 1993)
Block Letterlike Symbols
Plane Basic Multilingual Plane

Bidirectional Data

Bidirectional class Left To Right (L)
Is mirrored? No

Character Case

Case Uppercase
Lowercase character k (U+006B)

Other Unicode Data

Category Uppercase Letter
Script Latin
Combining Class Not Reordered
Decomposition mapping

U+212A Conversion

HTML (decimal) K
HTML (hex) K
HTML (named) -
URL Escape Code %E2%84%AA
CSS \00212A
JavaScript, JSON \u212A
C, C++, Java \u212A
Python \u212A
Rust \u{212A}
Ruby \u212A

How to type "K"

  • Windows ?: Hold Alt, then type 2 1 2 A. Release Alt.
  • Mac ?: Hold Alt ⌥, then type 2 1 2 A. Release Alt.

Preview

  • K
    Times, Times New Roman, serif
  • K
    Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif
  • K
    Courier, Courier New, monospace

UTF Encodings

UTF-8 (hex) 0xE2 0x84 0xAA
UTF-16 (hex) 0x212A
UTF-32 (hex) 0x0000212A

References