K
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See also: k and Appendix:Variations of "k"
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Etymology
From the Etruscan letter 𐌊 (k, “ka”), from the Ancient Greek letter Κ (K, “kappa”), derived from the Phoenician letter 𐤊 (k, “kap”), from the Egyptian hieroglyph 𓂧.
Letter
K (lower case k)
- The eleventh letter of the basic modern Latin alphabet.
See also
Symbol
K
- (chemistry) Chemical symbol for potassium.
- Symbol for kelvin, the SI unit of thermodynamic temperature.
- (biochemistry) IUPAC 1-letter abbreviation for lysine.
- (geology) Symbol for hydraulic conductivity.
- Abbreviation of kilo (thousand).
- 5k = 5,000
- (radio slang) over, waiting for reply
- (linguistics) A wildcard for a velar consonant
- (linguistics) A wildcard for a consonant (e.g. in German-language texts)
Usage notes
The Unicode Standard states that K (U+212A KELVIN SIGN) is included in Unicode only for backward compatibility reasons. To represent kelvin, K (U+004B LATIN CAPITAL LETTER K) is preferred.
Gallery
- Letter styles
- Uppercase and lowercase versions of K, in normal and italic type
- Uppercase and lowercase K in Fraktur
See also
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Other representations of K:
English
Afar
Afrikaans
Angami
Azerbaijani
Basque
Catalan
Central Franconian
Chinese
Chipewyan
Dutch
Elfdalian
Esperanto
Estonian
Finnish
German
Hawaiian
Heiltsuk
Hungarian
Icelandic
Ido
Indonesian
Italian
Jamaican Creole
Kankanaey
Kashubian
Latvian
Malay
Navajo
Nupe
Polish
Portuguese
Romani
Romanian
Saanich
Silesian
Skolt Sami
Slovene
Somali
Spanish
Swedish
Tagalog
Turkish
Vietnamese
Yoruba
Zulu
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