к
к - Translingual
Letter
к (upper case К)
- A letter of the Cyrillic script, called ka.
Letter
к (upper case К)
- A letter of the Old Cyrillic script, called kako.
Gallery
Regular.
Italics.
Handwritten.
к - Abaza
Letter
к • (k) (lower case, upper case К)
- The twenty-fifth letter of the Abaza alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.
к - Abkhaz
Letter
к • (kʼ) (lower case, upper case К)
- The twentieth letter of the Abkhaz alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.
к - Adyghe
Letter
к • (k) (lower case, upper case К)
- The twenty-first letter of the Adyghe alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.
к - Aghul
Letter
к (k) (lower case, upper case К)
- The sixteenth letter of the Aghul alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.
к - Alutor
Letter
к (transliteration needed) (lower case, upper case К)
- The sixteenth letter of the Alutor alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.
к - Archi
Letter
к (k) (lower case, upper case К)
- The twenty-eighth letter of the Archi alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.
к - Avar
Letter
к • (k) (lower case, upper case К)
- The fifteenth letter of the Avar alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.
к - Azerbaijani
Letter
к (lower case, upper case К)
- The fourteenth letter of the Azerbaijani alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.
к - Bashkir
Letter
к • (k) (lower case, upper case К)
- The fourteenth letter of the Bashkir alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.
к - Belarusian
Letter
к • (k) (lower case, upper case К)
- The twelfth letter of the Belarusian alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.
к - Bulgarian
Letter
к • (k) (lower case, upper case К)
- The eleventh letter of the Bulgarian alphabet, called къ (k), and written in the Cyrillic script.
к - Buryat
Letter
к • (k) (lower case, upper case К)
- The twelfth letter of the Buryat alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.
к - Chechen
Letter
к • (k) (lower case, upper case К)
- The fourteenth letter of the Chechen alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.
к - Chukchi
Letter
к (transliteration needed) (lower case, upper case К)
- The twelfth letter of the Chukchi alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.
к - Chuvash
Letter
к • (k) (lower case, upper case К)
- The fourteenth letter of the Chuvash alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.
к - Crimean Tatar
Letter
к (transliteration needed) (lower case, upper case К)
- The thirteenth letter of the Crimean Tatar alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.
к - Dargwa
Letter
к • (k) (lower case, upper case К)
- The fifteenth letter of the Dargwa alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.
к - Dungan
Letter
к • (k) (lower case, upper case К)
- The fourteenth letter of the Dungan alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.
к - Eastern Mari
Letter
к • (k) (lower case, upper case К)
- The twelfth letter of the Eastern Mari alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.
к - Even
Letter
к (k) (lower case, upper case К)
- The twelfth letter of the Even alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.
к - Evenki
Letter
к • (k) (lower case, upper case К)
- The twelfth letter of the Evenki alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.
к - Ingush
Letter
к • (k) (lower case, upper case К)
- The fourteenth letter of the Ingush alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.
к - Itelmen
Letter
к (transliteration needed) (lower case, upper case К)
- The thirteenth letter of the Itelmen alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.
к - Kabardian
Letter
к • (k) (lower case, upper case К)
- The nineteenth letter of the Kabardian alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.
к - Kalmyk
Letter
к • (k) (lower case, upper case К)
- The fifteenth letter of the Kalmyk alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.
к - Kazakh
Letter
к • (k) (lower case, upper case К)
- The fourteenth letter of the Kazakh alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.
к - Khakas
Letter
к • (k) (lower case, upper case К)
- The fourteenth letter of the Khakas alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.
к - Kumyk
Letter
к • (k) (lower case, upper case К)
- The fourteenth letter of the Kumyk alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.
к - Kyrgyz
Letter
к • (q) (lower case, upper case К)
- The twelfth letter of the Kyrgyz alphabet, called ка (qa), and written in the Cyrillic script.
Usage notes
The phoneme /k/ becomes /q/ when adjacent to back vowels (а (a), о (o), у (u), and ы (ı)) in non-loanwords. In loanwords, it is always /k/.
к - Lezgi
Letter
к • (k) (lower case, upper case К)
- The fourteenth letter of the Lezgi alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.
к - Macedonian
Letter
к • (k) (lower case, upper case К)
- The thirteenth letter of the Macedonian alphabet, called ка (ka), and written in the Cyrillic script.
к - Mansi
Letter
к • (k) (lower case, upper case К)
- The sixteenth letter of the Mansi alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.
к - Mongolian
Letter
к • (k) (lower case, upper case К)
- The twelfth letter of the Mongolian alphabet, called ка (ka), and written in the Cyrillic script.
к - Nivkh
Letter
к (k) (lower case, upper case К)
- The fifteenth letter of the Nivkh alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.
к - Old Church Slavonic
Letter
к • (k) (lower case, upper case К)
- A letter of the Old Church Slavonic alphabet, called како (kako), and written in the Old Cyrillic script.
к - Orok
Letter
к (transliteration needed) (lower case, upper case К)
- The thirteenth letter of the Orok alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.
к - Ossetian
Letter
к • (k) (lower case, upper case К)
- The sixteenth letter of the Ossetian alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.
к - Romanian
Letter
к (lower case, upper case К)
- The twelfth letter of the Moldovan alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.
к - Russian
Letter
к • (k) (lower case, upper case К)
- The twelfth letter of the Russian alphabet, called ка (ka), and written in the Cyrillic script.
- къ (k) – Pre-reform orthography (1918)
Pronunciation
- IPA: [k] (before vowels, voiceless consonants and half of voiced consonants)
- IPA: [ɡ] (before the voiced consonants б (b), г (g), д (d), ж (ž) and з (z))
- IPA: [kə] (when pausing to think)
Preposition
к • (k) (+ dative case)
- to, toward
- by, for (of time)
- against (change of position)
Usage notes
ко (ko) is used before words beginning with certain awkward consonant clusters such as мн- (mn-), вс- (vs-), вт- (vt-), and сн- (sn-).
Prefix
к • (k)
- k, kilo- (x 1000)
к - Serbo-Croatian
Letter
к (lower case, upper case К, Latin spelling k)
- The twelfth letter of the Serbo-Croatian alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.
Preposition
к (Latin spelling k) (+ dative case)
- to
- towards
Usage notes
Although both к and ка can be used synonymously, к must take the alternative form ка in the following environment:
- before /к, г, х/:
- ка граду - to the city
- ка горе - towards above
- ка хладу - toward the shade
к - Southern Altai
Letter
к • (k) (lower case, upper case К)
- The thirteenth letter of the Southern Altai alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.
к - Tabasaran
Letter
к • (k) (lower case, upper case К)
- The fifteenth letter of the Tabasaran alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.
к - Tajik
Letter
к • (k) (lower case, upper case К)
- The fourteenth letter of the Tajik alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.
к - Tatar
Letter
к • (k) (lower case, upper case К)
- The fourteenth letter of the Tatar alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.
к - Tundra Nenets
Letter
к • (transliteration needed) (lower case, upper case К)
- The twelfth letter of the Tundra Nenets alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.
к - Tuvan
Letter
к • (k) (lower case, upper case К)
- The twelfth letter of the Tuvan alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.
к - Udmurt
Letter
к • (k) (lower case, upper case К)
- The fifteenth letter of the Udmurt alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.
к - Ukrainian
Pronunciation
- (phoneme) IPA: /k/
- (letter name) IPA: [ka]
Letter
к • (k) (lower case, upper case К)
- The fifteenth letter of the Ukrainian alphabet, called ка (ka), and written in the Cyrillic script.
к - Uzbek
Letter
к (k) (lower case, upper case К)
- The twelfth letter of the Uzbek alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.
к - Western Mari
Letter
к • (k) (lower case, upper case К)
- The thirteenth letter of the Western Mari alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.
к - Yakut
Letter
к • (k) (lower case, upper case К)
- The fourteenth letter of the Yakut alphabet, called кы (kı), and written in the Cyrillic script.