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The Universal Character Set
LetterK.svg
Unicode name LATIN CAPITAL LETTER K
Basic Latin U+004B

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[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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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:


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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.

[edit] Noun

Singular
K

Plural
Ks

K (plural Ks)

  1. (law, informal) A contract.

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K (Stokoe K)

  1. The letter K

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  • (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

[edit] Hungarian

Compass rose

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K

  1. E (east)

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[edit] Italian

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K m. and f. inv.

  1. The eleventh letter of the Latin alphabet

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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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K (capital, lowercase k)

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

[edit] Spanish

[edit] Letter

K (upper case, lower case k)

  1. The twelfth letter of the Spanish alphabet.