K

Etymology
From the letter, from the  letter , derived from the  letter , from the  hieroglyph.

Letter

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

Symbol

 * 1)  Symbol for potassium.
 * 2) Symbol for kelvin, the SI unit of thermodynamic temperature.
 * 3)  IUPAC 1-letter abbreviation for lysine.
 * 4)  Symbol for hydraulic conductivity.
 * 5k = 5,000
 * 1)  over, waiting for reply
 * 2)  A wildcard for a velar consonant
 * 1)  A wildcard for a velar consonant

Usage notes
The Unicode Standard states that is included in Unicode only for backward compatibility reasons. To represent kelvin, is preferred.

Letter

 * 1) * 1876, "C" in the Encyclopædia Britannica, 9th ed., Vol. IV, p. 616:
 * The symbol K, however, was not entirely lost; it is found irregularly in inscriptions of all dates down to the times of the empire, and regularly as an initial abbreviation of Kalendæ, Karthago, Kæso (the proper name).
 * The symbol K, however, was not entirely lost; it is found irregularly in inscriptions of all dates down to the times of the empire, and regularly as an initial abbreviation of Kalendæ, Karthago, Kæso (the proper name).

Etymology 2
Abbreviations.

Noun

 * "K-8" is Kindergarten through eighth grade.
 * 1)   1,024.
 * 5k = 5,000
 * 1)    a drug.
 * 5k = 5,000
 * 1)    a drug.
 * 1)    a drug.
 * 1)    a drug.
 * 1)    a drug.
 * 1)    a drug.
 * 1)    a drug.
 * 1)    a drug.
 * 1)    a drug.
 * 1)    a drug.

Derived terms

 * K-hole, Special K
 * K-hole, Special K

Translations

 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Estonian:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Icelandic: K
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Swedish:

Interjection

 * 1)  OK

Usage notes
"K" usually implies or  towards the statement it is responding to, in a more  way than "".

Letter

 * 1) The seventh letter in the Afar alphabet.

Noun

 * 1) K

Etymology

 * is from West Germanic stem-initial or geminated ; from *k in nk, lk, rk; in most of Moselle Franconian from *gg.

Usage notes

 * In the German-based spelling, doubling of k yields ck. This is used after short vowels except in certain function words and when the letter is followed by another consonant within the word stem.
 * In the Dutch-based spelling, doubling of k yields kk. This is used after short vowels if the syllable were otherwise open.

Etymology 3
Initialism of, based on its pinyin.

Verb

 * 1)  to repost

Etymology 4
From, abbreviation of.

Noun

 * 1)  ketamine

Numeral

 * 1) thousand; kilo

Classifier

 * 1) kilometre
 * 2) kilogram

Etymology 6
Abbreviation of.

Classifier

 * 1)  kilobyte

Etymology 7
From, abbreviation of.

Noun

 * 1) karat

Etymology 9
From the letter K of the English pattern playing cards. In the spoken language, its name is generally a borrowing from or the letter.

Noun

 * 1)  king

Usage notes

 * 《汉语拼音方案》 defines a standard pronunciation for each letter. However, these pronunciations are rarely used in education; another pronunciation is commonly used instead.
 * The pronunciation above are only used while referring to letters in Pinyin. They are not used in other context (such as English).

Letter

 * 1) The eleventh letter of the Dutch alphabet.

Letter

 * 1) The eleventh letter of the German alphabet.

Usage notes

 * Doubling of normally yields, but loanwords with original  are excepted. These are integrated with   or retain the original spelling.

Etymology 1
.

Noun

 * 1) E (east)

Letter

 * 1) The eleventh letter of the, called  or  in Italian

Usage notes

 * The letter K is not considered part of the Italian alphabet and is found only in loanwords.

Noun

 * 1) Kalashnikov

Etymology
Proposed in 1908 as part of the new Latvian spelling by the scientific commission headed by K. Mīlenbahs, which was accepted and began to be taught in schools in 1909. Prior to that, Latvian had been written in German Fraktur, and sporadically in Cyrillic.

Letter




Pronunciation

 * , or if voiced

Usage notes
Used only in loanwords and some proper nouns.

Usage notes

 * 1) The sixteenth letter of the Somali alphabet, which follows Arabic abjad order. It is preceded by Q and followed by L.

Letter

 * 1) The eleventh letter of the Spanish alphabet

Pronunciation

 * Letter name


 * Phoneme

Letter

 * 1) The eleventh letter of the Swedish alphabet

Symbol

 * 1)  history
 * 2)  type of  valid until ration cards for any of the individual items are made
 * °N, °W
 * 1)  type of  valid until ration cards for any of the individual items are made
 * °N, °W
 * °N, °W

Abbreviations

 * °N, °W
 * °N, °W
 * °N, °W
 * °N, °W
 * °N, °W
 * °N, °W
 * °N, °W
 * °N, °W
 * °N, °W
 * °N, °W

Etymology
. Each pronunciation has a different source:
 * Filipino alphabet pronunciation is influenced by.
 * Abakada alphabet pronunciation is influenced by Baybayin character.
 * Abecedario pronunciation is from.

The use of $⟨K⟩$ instead of using the Spanish-based $⟨C⟩$ and $⟨Q⟩$ was promoted in the late 19th century primarily by the educated (such as and ) because of the Baybayin character primarily being applicable to all vowels, as well as the ease of usage with Tagalog grammar rules. Its order in the Abakada alphabet was due to the order of the similar sounding $⟨C⟩$ in the Spanish alphabet.

Etymology 1
From or.

Etymology 2
From, from.

Usage notes

 * Colloquially, even physics and chemistry teachers say "độ K" instead of just "K", despite the fact that there is no here like  or.

Noun

 * 1) cancer