U+0199 LATIN SMALL LETTER K WITH HOOK

The Unicode character U+0199, officially named LATIN SMALL LETTER K WITH HOOK, was introduced in Unicode version 1.1. It is part of the Latin Ext B block, which belongs to the Basic Multilingual plane. Previously, it was also referred to as LATIN SMALL LETTER K HOOK.

Categorized technically as a Lowercase Letter, this character typically falls under the Latin script. In terms of text layout and rendering, the glyph is not a composition and has no designated width in East Asian typography. When placed in bidirectional text, it behaves as an Left-To-Right character. Its visual representation remains not mirrored regardless of the reading direction.