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Eleventh letter of the Latin alphabet

K
M k
(See beneath)

Usage
Writing system	Latin script
Type	Alphabetic and Logographic
Language of origin	Latin language
Phonetic usage	[ m ] [ kʰ ] [ kʼ ] [ ɡ ]
Unicode codepoint	`U+004B, U+006B`
Alphabetical position	11
History
Development	Κ κ ϰ 𐌊 Thousand k
Time period	~-700 to present
Descendants	• Thousand • Ʞ • ₭
Sisters	К כ ך ک ك ܟ ࠊ 𐎋 ከ Կ կ Հ հ Խ խ
Variations	(See below)
Other
Other letters commonly used with	m(x)
This article contains phonetic transcriptions in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). For an introductory guide on IPA symbols, see Help:IPA. For the distinction between [ ], / / and ⟨⟩, meet IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters.

K, or k, is the eleventh letter of the modern English alphabet and the ISO bones Latin alphabet. Its name in English is kay (pronounced ), plural kays.^[1] The letter K usually represents the voiceless velar plosive.

History

Egyptian hieroglyph D	Proto-Sinaitic K	Proto-Canaanite kap	Phoenician kaph	Greek Kappa	Latin K

The letter K comes from the Greek alphabetic character Κ (kappa), which was taken from the Semitic kaph, the symbol for an open up hand.^[two] This, in turn, was likely adjusted by Semitic tribes who had lived in Egypt from the hieroglyph for "hand" representing /ḏ/ in the Egyptian give-and-take for paw, ⟨ḏ-r-t⟩ (likely pronounced /ˈcʼaːɾat/ in One-time Egyptian). The Semites evidently assigned it the audio value /k/ instead, because their give-and-take for hand started with that sound.^[3]

In the primeval Latin inscriptions, the letters C, K and Q were all used to represent the sounds /k/ and /ɡ/ (which were not differentiated in writing). Of these, Q was used before a rounded vowel (e.g. ⟨EQO⟩ 'ego'), Thousand before /a/ (e.g. ⟨KALENDIS⟩ 'calendis'), and C elsewhere. Later, the use of C and its variant G replaced most usages of K and Q. One thousand survived but in a few fossilized forms such as Kalendae, "the calends".^[4]

After Greek words were taken into Latin, the Kappa was transliterated equally a C. Loanwords from other alphabets with the sound /k/ were as well transliterated with C. Hence, the Romance languages generally utilize C, in imitating Classical Latin's exercise, and accept K but in later loanwords from other language groups. The Celtic languages likewise tended to use C instead of One thousand, and this influence carried over into Old English.

Pronunciation and employ

Pronunciations of Kk
Linguistic communication	Dialect(s)	Pronunciation (IPA)	Environment	Notes
Faeroese		/k/	hard
Faeroese		/tʃʰ/	soft
Greek		/c/	soft	Latinization
Greek		/thou/	difficult	Latinization
Icelandic		/cʰ/	soft
		/ç/	soft, lenited
		/kʰ/	hard
		/x/	hard, lenited
Mandarin	Standard	/kʰ/		Pinyin latinization
Norwegian		/ç/	soft
Norwegian		/k/	hard
Swedish		/k/	hard
Swedish		/ɕ/	soft
Turkish		/c/	soft
Turkish		/k/	hard

English

English is now the only Germanic language to productively use "difficult" ⟨c⟩ (outside the digraph ⟨ck⟩) rather than ⟨k⟩ (although Dutch uses information technology in loan words of Latin origin, and the pronunciation of these words follows the aforementioned difficult/soft stardom as in English language).^{[ citation needed ]}

The alphabetic character ⟨k⟩ is silent at the start of an English give-and-take when it comes before the letter ⟨n⟩, as in the words "knight," "knife," "knot," "know," and "knee".

Like J, 10, Q, and Z, the letter G is not used very often in English language. Information technology is the fifth least frequently used letter in the English language linguistic communication, with a frequency in words of nigh 0.8%.

Number

In the International Organization of Units (SI), the SI prefix for i g is kilo-, officially abbreviated as thou: for example, prefixed to metre/meter or its abridgement 1000, kilometre or km signifies a k metres. Every bit such, people occasionally correspond numbers in a non-standard notation past replacing the last three zeros of the full general numeral with K, as in 30K for 30,000.

Other languages

In most languages where it is employed, this letter represents the audio /grand/ (with or without aspiration) or some similar sound.

Other systems

The International Phonetic Alphabet uses ⟨thousand⟩ for the voiceless velar plosive.

Ancestors, descendants and siblings

𐤊 : Semitic letter Kaph, from which the following symbols originally derive
Κ κ/ϰ : Greek letter Kappa, from which K derives
К к : Cyrillic letter Ka, also derived from Kappa
K with diacritics: Ƙ ƙ, Ꝁ ꝁ, Ḱ ḱ, Ǩ ǩ, Ḳ ḳ, Ķ ķ, ᶄ, Ⱪ ⱪ, Ḵ ḵ
- Ꞣ and ꞣ were used in Latvian orthography before 1921^[5]
The Uralic Phonetic Alphabet uses diverse forms of the letter Thousand:^[6]
- U+1D0B ᴋ LATIN LETTER SMALL CAPITAL K
- U+1D37 ᴷ MODIFIER Letter CAPITAL K
- U+1D4F ᵏ MODIFIER Letter SMALL One thousand
ₖ : Subscript small thou was used in the Uralic Phonetic Alphabet prior to its formal standardization in 1902^[seven]
Ʞ ʞ : Turned upper-case letter and small g were used in transcriptions of the Dakota linguistic communication in publications of the American Board of Ethnology in the belatedly 19th century.^[eight] Turned small chiliad was besides used for a velar click in the International Phonetic Alphabet merely its employ was withdrawn in 1970.

Ligatures and abbreviations

₭ : Lao kip
Ꝃ ꝃ, Ꝅ ꝅ, Ꞣ ꞣ : Various forms of K were used for medieval scribal abbreviations ^[9]

Computing codes

Grapheme data
Preview	Thou		k		Thou
Unicode name	LATIN CAPITAL Letter of the alphabet Chiliad		LATIN Minor Letter of the alphabet G		KELVIN SIGN
Encodings	decimal	hex	december	hex	december	hex
Unicode	75	U+004B	107	U+006B	8490	U+212A
UTF-viii	75	4B	107	6B	226 132 170	E2 84 AA
Numeric grapheme reference	K	K	k	k	K	K
EBCDIC family unit	210	D2	146	92
ASCII ¹	75	4B	107	6B

¹ Too for encodings based on ASCII, including the DOS, Windows, ISO-8859 and Macintosh families of encodings.

Other representation

Other usage

"1000" replacing "C" in satiric misspelling.
K is the unit of measurement symbol for the kelvin, used to measure thermodynamic temperature (note: degree sign is not used with kelvin scale).
K is the chemical symbol for the element potassium (K is an abbreviation of kalium, the Latin name for potassium).
Triangle Thou.
Unit prefix 1000, pregnant m times.
Josef G is the name of the principal character in Franz Kafka'south novel The Trial .
In chess notation, the letter of the alphabet K represents the King (WK for White King, BK for Blackness Rex).
In baseball scoring, the letter K is used to represent a strikeout. A frontwards oriented 1000 represents a "strikeout swinging"; a backwards oriented G ( ) represents a "strikeout looking".
As abbreviation for OK, often used in emails and short text letters.
K is used as a slang term for Ketamine among recreational drug users.
In the CMYK color model, G represents black ink.
In International Morse lawmaking it is used to mean "over".^[10]
In fracture mechanics, Thousand is used to correspond the stress intensity gene.
In physics, k usually stands for Boltzmann's constant
K (logic).
K is used colloquially to mean kilometre (as in "a 10K run").
K is used to indicate thousands, peculiarly when expressing amounts of money, e.chiliad. $20K = 20 thousand dollars.
In the United Kingdom under the old system (before 2001), a licence plate that begins with "Grand" for instance "K123 XYZ" would correspond to a vehicle registered between Baronial ane, 1992, and July 31, 1993. Again under the old system, a licence plate that ends with "K" for example "ABC 123K" would stand for to a vehicle that was registered betwixt August 1, 1971, and July 31, 1972.
On Idaho license plates, an initial K in the plate number indicates information technology was issued in Kootenai County.

References

^ "1000" Oxford English Dictionary, second edition (1989); Merriam-Webster's Third New International Dictionary of the English language Language, Unabridged (1993); "kay," op. cit.
^ "K". The Oxford English Dictionary, 2d ed., 1977, online (registration required) ^{[ dead link ]}
^ Gordon, Cyrus H. (1970). "The Accidental Invention of the Phonemic Alphabet". Journal of Near Eastern Studies. 29 (3): 193–197. doi:10.1086/372069. JSTOR 543451. S2CID 161870047.
^ Sihler, Andrew L. (1995). New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin (illustrated ed.). New York: Oxford University Printing. p. 21. ISBN 0-nineteen-508345-eight . Archived from the original on 2016-11-09. Retrieved 2016-10-18 .
^ "Latin Extended-D" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 2019-03-25. Retrieved 2019-03-06 .
^ Everson, Michael; et al. (2002-03-xx). "L2/02-141: Uralic Phonetic Alphabet characters for the UCS" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 2018-02-19. Retrieved 2018-03-24 .
^ Ruppel, Klaas; Aalto, Tero; Everson, Michael (2009-01-27). "L2/09-028: Proposal to encode additional characters for the Uralic Phonetic Alphabet" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 2017-ten-11. Retrieved 2018-03-24 .
^ Everson, Michael; Jacquerye, Denis; Lilley, Chris (2012-07-26). "L2/12-270: Proposal for the add-on of ten Latin characters to the UCS" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 2019-03-30. Retrieved 2018-03-24 .
^ Everson, Michael; Bakery, Peter; Emiliano, António; Grammel, Florian; Haugen, Odd Einar; Luft, Diana; Pedro, Susana; Schumacher, Gerd; Stötzner, Andreas (2006-01-30). "L2/06-027: Proposal to add together Medievalist characters to the UCS" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 2018-09-19. Retrieved 2018-03-24 .
^ Stephen Phillips (2009-06-04). "International Morse Code". Archived from the original on 2014-02-12. Retrieved 2014-02-10 .

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