k

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The Universal Character Set

Unicode name	LATIN SMALL LETTER K
Basic Latin	U+006B

Contents 1 Translingual 1.1 Letter 1.1.1 See also 2 English 2.1 Pronunciation 2.2 Letter 2.3 Noun 2.4 Abbreviation 2.5 Interjection 2.6 See also 3 Bosnian 3.1 Preposition 3.1.1 Synonyms 4 Croatian 4.1 Preposition 5 Czech 5.1 Pronunciation 5.2 Preposition 5.2.1 Synonyms 6 Dutch 6.1 Pronunciation 6.2 Letter 6.3 See also 7 Italian 7.1 Noun 8 Latin 8.1 Abbreviation 8.2 Letter 9 Romanian 9.1 Pronunciation 9.2 Letter 10 Serbian 10.1 Letter 10.2 Preposition 10.2.1 Synonyms 11 Spanish 11.1 Letter

[edit] Translingual

Wikipedia

[edit] Letter

k lower case (upper case K)

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

[edit] See also

• (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

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

•  Audio (US)^{help, file}
•  Audio (UK)^{help, file}

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k (lower case, upper case K)

1. The 11th letter of the English alphabet, preceded by J and followed by L, and representing /k/.
2. A symbol of the IPA, representing a voiceless velar stop.
3. The first letter of callsigns allocated to American broadcast television and radio stations west of the Mississippi river.

[edit] Noun

k

1. The eleventh letter of the English alphabet.
2. The SI measurement value of 1,000.
3. (colloquial) A kilometre.

   We drove 15 ks before we realised Billy wasn't in the back seat.

4. (computing) A kilobyte (more formally KB or kB).

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k

1. See K

[edit] Interjection

k

1. (colloquial, Internet slang) Okay. (Also spelled 'kay.)

[edit] See also

• Uppercase: K
• With cedilla: ķ
• With hook: ƙ
• With caron: ǩ
• With acute: ḱ
• With dot below: ḳ
• With line below: ḵ
• ĸ (kra)
• Κ (kappa)
• К (ka)

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[edit] Bosnian

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k

1. to
2. toward

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• ka

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[edit] Croatian

[edit] Preposition

k

1. to
2. towards

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[edit] Czech

[edit] Pronunciation

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[edit] Preposition

k

1. to
2. toward, towards

[edit] Synonyms

• ke
• ku

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[edit] Dutch

[edit] Pronunciation

• (letter name): IPA: /ka/

[edit] Letter

k (lower case, upper case K)

1. The eleventh letter of the Dutch alphabet.

[edit] See also

• Previous letter: j
• Next letter: l

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[edit] Italian

[edit] Noun

k m. and f. inv.

1. See under K

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[edit] Latin

[edit] Abbreviation

k

1. Abbreviation for Kaeso
2. text for ok

[edit] Letter

k

1. A letter of the Latin alphabet.

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[edit] Romanian

[edit] Pronunciation

• IPA: /ka/

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k (lowercase, capital 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] Serbian

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k (lowercase, capital K)

1. The 15th letter of the Serbian Latin alphabet. It is preceded by j and followed by l.

[edit] Preposition

k (Cyrillic spelling к)

1. to
2. toward

[edit] Synonyms

• ka

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[edit] Spanish

[edit] Letter

k (lower case, upper case K)

1. The twelfth letter of the Spanish alphabet.