K

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The Universal Character Set

Unicode name	LATIN CAPITAL LETTER K
Basic Latin	U+004B

Contents 1 Translingual 1.1 Letter 1.1.1 See also 1.2 Symbol 1.3 See also 2 English 2.1 Pronunciation 2.2 Letter 2.3 Abbreviation 2.4 Noun 3 American Sign Language 3.1 Letter 4 Dutch 4.1 Pronunciation 4.2 Letter 4.3 See also 5 Hungarian 5.1 Abbreviation 5.2 See also 6 Italian 6.1 Pronunciation 6.2 Noun 7 Romanian 7.1 Pronunciation 7.2 Letter 8 Slovene 8.1 Pronunciation 8.2 Letter 9 Spanish 9.1 Letter

[edit] Translingual

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[edit] Letter

K upper case (lower case k)

1. The eleventh letter of the basic modern Latin alphabet.

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• (Latin script):  Aa  Bb  Cc  Dd  Ee  Ff  Gg  Hh  Ii  Jj  Kk  Ll  Mm  Nn  Oo  Pp  Qq  Rr  Ss  Tt  Uu  Vv  Ww  Xx  Yy  Zz
• (Variations of letter K):  Ḱḱ  Ǩǩ  Ķķ  Ḳḳ  Ḵḵ  Ƙƙ  Ⱪⱪ  ᶄᶄ  Ꝁꝁ  ᴋ  Ｊｊ  Ｋｋ

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K

1. (chemistry) Symbol for potassium.
2. Symbol for kelvin, the SI unit of thermodynamic temperature.
3. (baseball) The statistic for strikeouts.
4. (biochemistry) IUPAC 1-letter abbreviation for lysine.
5. Thousand.

   5k = 5,000

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Other representations of K:

NATO phonetic: Kilo Morse code: –·– Braille: ⠅ ASL Manual: K

Signal flag:

Semaphore:

Letter styles

Capital and lowercase versions of K, in normal and italic type

Uppercase and lowercase K in Fraktur

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[edit] English

[edit] Pronunciation

• IPA: /kʰeɪ/, SAMPA: /keI/

 Audio (UK)^{help, file}

• Rhymes: -eɪ

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K (uppercase, lowercase k)

1. The eleventh letter of the English alphabet, preceded by J and followed by L.

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K

1. (education, US) kindergarten

   Example: "K-8" is Kindergarten through eighth grade

2. (computing, often) 1,024.
3. A single character message used as an acknowledgement (ACK), meaning "previous message received and understood."
4. In morse code K means "go ahead" or "over" as a procedural signal.
5. (baseball) Strikeouts.

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K (plural Ks)

1. (law, informal) A contract.

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[edit] American Sign Language

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(Stokoe K)

1. The letter K

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[edit] Dutch

[edit] Pronunciation

• (letter name): IPA: /ka/

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K (capital, lowercase k)

1. The eleventh letter of the Dutch alphabet.

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• Previous letter: J
• Next letter: L

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[edit] Hungarian

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K

1. E (east)

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• észak (É), dél (D), kelet, nyugat (Ny)

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[edit] Italian

[edit] Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈkappa/, SAMPA: /"kappa/

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K m. and f. inv.

1. The eleventh letter of the Latin alphabet

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[edit] Romanian

[edit] Pronunciation

• IPA: /ka/

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K (capital, lowercase k)

1. The fourteenth letter of the Romanian alphabet, mostly used in foreign words to represent the phoneme /k/. Preceded by J and followed by L.

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[edit] Slovene

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K (capital, lowercase k)

1. The 12th letter of the Slovene alphabet. Preceded by J and followed by L.

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[edit] Spanish

[edit] Letter

K (upper case, lower case k)

1. The twelfth letter of the Spanish alphabet.