k

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Letter k.svg
Unicode name LATIN SMALL LETTER K
Codepoint U+006B
j ← Basic Latin → l

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[edit] Translingual

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k lower case (upper case K)

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

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Other representations of K:

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k

  1. (IPA) voiceless velar plosive.

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k lowercase (uppercase K)

  1. The eleventh letter of the English alphabet, called kay and written in the Latin script.
  2. The first letter of callsigns allocated to American broadcast television and radio stations west of the Mississippi river.
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k lower case (upper case K)

  1. The ordinal number eleventh, derived from this letter of the English alphabet, called kay and written in the Latin script.

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k

  1. The eleventh letter of the English alphabet.
  2. (computing) A kilobyte (more formally KB or kB).
  3. (colloquial) kilometre or kilometres.
    We drove 15 ks before we realised Billy wasn't in the back seat.
  4. (colloquial) thousand or thousands.
    Just about 65 k of Jack's full salaray comes from servicing the Baker account.
  5. The SI measurement value of 1,000
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k

  1. See K
  2. (colloquial, text messaging, Internet slang) Abbreviation of okay. (Also spelled 'kay.)

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[edit] Azeri

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k lower case (upper case K)

  1. The sixteenth letter of the Azeri alphabet, written in the Latin script.

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[edit] Czech

[edit] Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *kъ.

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  • (before a vowel or a voiceless consonant) IPA: [k]
  • (before a voiced consonant) IPA: [ɡ]
  • (file)

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k

  1. to
  2. toward, towards

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[edit] Dutch

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  • Rhymes: -aː
  • (letter name): IPA: /ka/

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k (lower case, upper case K)

  1. The eleventh letter of the Dutch alphabet.

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  • Previous letter: j
  • Next letter: l

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[edit] Esperanto

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k lower case (upper case K)

  1. The fifteenth letter of the Esperanto alphabet, called ko or ka and written in the Latin script.

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k

  1. Abbreviation of kaj (and).

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  • &
  • (text messaging) K

[edit] Italian

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k m. and f. inv.

  1. See under K

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k

  1. Abbreviation of Kaeso.

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k

  1. A letter of the Latin alphabet.

[edit] Romanian

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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.

[edit] Serbo-Croatian

[edit] Etymology 1

See Translingual section.

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  • (uppercase): K

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  • (phoneme) IPA: /k/

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k (Cyrillic spelling к)

  1. The 15th letter of the Serbo-Croatian Latin alphabet (gajica), preceded by j and followed by l.

[edit] Etymology 2

From Proto-Slavic *kъ, from Proto-Indo-European *kom.

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  • ka (See usage notes)

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k (Cyrillic spelling к)

  1. to
  2. towards
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  • ka (See usage notes)
[edit] Usage notes

Although both k and ka can be used synonymously, k must take the alternative form ka in the following environment:

  • before /k, g, h/:
    ka gradu - to the city
    ka gore - towards above
    ka hladu - toward the shade

[edit] Spanish

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k (lower case, upper case K)

  1. The eleventh letter of the Spanish alphabet.

[edit] Swedish

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Letter name
Phoneme
  • IPA: /k/, /ɕ/

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k lower case (upper case K)

  1. The eleventh letter of the Swedish alphabet, called and written in the Latin script. Pronounced /k/ in front of a, o, u and å and /ɕ/ in front of e, i, y, ä and ö (some loan words might ignore this rule).

[edit] Turkish

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k lower case (upper case K)

  1. The fourteenth letter of the Turkish alphabet, called ke and written in the Latin script.

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