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к U+043A, к
CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER KA
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Cyrillic л
A distinctive glyph is used for Bulgarian.

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Letter

к (upper case К)

  1. A letter of the Cyrillic script, called ka.

Letter

к (upper case К)

  1. A letter of the Old Cyrillic script, called kako.

Abaza

Letter

к (k) (lower case, upper case К)

  1. The twenty-fifth letter of the Abaza alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.

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Abkhaz

Letter

к () (lower case, upper case К)

  1. The twentieth letter of the Abkhaz alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.

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Adyghe

Letter

к (k) (lower case, upper case К)

  1. The twenty-first letter of the Adyghe alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.

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Aghul

Letter

к (k) (lower case, upper case К)

  1. The sixteenth letter of the Aghul alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.

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Alutor

Letter

к (transliteration needed) (lower case, upper case К)

  1. The sixteenth letter of the Alutor alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.

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Archi

Letter

к (k) (lower case, upper case К)

  1. The twenty-eighth letter of the Archi alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.

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Avar

Letter

к (k) (lower case, upper case К)

  1. The fifteenth letter of the Avar alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.

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Azerbaijani

Letter

к (lower case, upper case К)

  1. The fourteenth letter of the Azerbaijani alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.

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Bashkir

Pronunciation

Letter

к (k) (lower case, upper case К)

  1. The fourteenth letter of the Bashkir alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.

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Belarusian

Pronunciation

Letter

к (k) (lower case, upper case К)

  1. The twelfth letter of the Belarusian alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.

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Bulgarian

Pronunciation

Letter

к (k) (lower case, upper case К)

  1. The eleventh letter of the Bulgarian alphabet, called къ (k), and written in the Cyrillic script.

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Buryat

Letter

к (k) (lower case, upper case К)

  1. The twelfth letter of the Buryat alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.

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Chechen

Letter

к (k) (lower case, upper case К)

  1. The fourteenth letter of the Chechen alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.

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Chukchi

Letter

к (transliteration needed) (lower case, upper case К)

  1. The twelfth letter of the Chukchi alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.

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Chuvash

Letter

к (k) (lower case, upper case К)

  1. The fourteenth letter of the Chuvash alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.

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Crimean Tatar

Letter

к (transliteration needed) (lower case, upper case К)

  1. The thirteenth letter of the Crimean Tatar alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.

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Dargwa

Letter

к (k) (lower case, upper case К)

  1. The fifteenth letter of the Dargwa alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.

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Dungan

Letter

к (k) (lower case, upper case К)

  1. The fourteenth letter of the Dungan alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.

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Eastern Mari

Letter

к (k) (lower case, upper case К)

  1. The twelfth letter of the Eastern Mari alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.

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Even

Letter

к (k) (lower case, upper case К)

  1. The twelfth letter of the Even alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.

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Evenki

Letter

к (k) (lower case, upper case К)

  1. The twelfth letter of the Evenki alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.

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Ingush

Letter

к (k) (lower case, upper case К)

  1. The fourteenth letter of the Ingush alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.

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Itelmen

Letter

к (transliteration needed) (lower case, upper case К)

  1. The thirteenth letter of the Itelmen alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.

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Kabardian

Letter

к (k) (lower case, upper case К)

  1. The nineteenth letter of the Kabardian alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.

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Kalmyk

Letter

к (k) (lower case, upper case К)

  1. The fifteenth letter of the Kalmyk alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.

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Kazakh

Alternative scripts
Arabic ك
Cyrillic к
Latin k

Pronunciation

Letter

к (k) (lower case, upper case К)

  1. The fourteenth letter of the Kazakh alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.

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Khakas

Letter

к (k) (lower case, upper case К)

  1. The fourteenth letter of the Khakas alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.

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Kumyk

Letter

к (k) (lower case, upper case К)

  1. The fourteenth letter of the Kumyk alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.

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Kyrgyz

Pronunciation

Letter

к (k) (lower case, upper case К)

  1. The twelfth letter of the Kyrgyz alphabet, called ка (ka), 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/.

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Lezgi

Letter

к (k) (lower case, upper case К)

  1. The fourteenth letter of the Lezgi alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.

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Macedonian

Pronunciation

Letter

к (k) (lower case, upper case К)

  1. The thirteenth letter of the Macedonian alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.

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Mongolian

Pronunciation

Letter

к (k) (lower case, upper case К)

  1. The twelfth letter of the Mongolian alphabet, called ка (ka), and written in the Cyrillic script.

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Nivkh

Pronunciation

Letter

к (k) (lower case, upper case К)

  1. The fifteenth letter of the Nivkh alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.

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Northern Mansi

Letter

к (k) (lower case, upper case К)

  1. The sixteenth letter of the Northern Mansi alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.

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Old Church Slavonic

Letter

к (k) (lower case, upper case К)

  1. A letter of the Old Church Slavonic alphabet, called како (kako), and written in the Old Cyrillic script.

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Orok

Letter

к (k) (lower case, upper case К)

  1. The thirteenth letter of the Orok alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.

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Ossetian

Pronunciation

Letter

к (k) (lower case, upper case К)

  1. The sixteenth letter of the Ossetian alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.

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Romanian

Letter

к (c) (lower case, upper case К)

  1. The twelfth letter of the Moldovan alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.

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Russian

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): , ,
  • Audio:(file)

Letter

к (k) (lower case, upper case К)

  1. The twelfth letter of the Russian alphabet, called ка (ka), and written in the Cyrillic script.

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Etymology 2

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *kъ(n).

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (before vowels, voiceless consonants and half of voiced consonants)
  • IPA(key): (before the voiced consonants б (b), г (g), д (d), ж (ž) and з (z))
  • IPA(key): (when pausing to think)
  • Audio:(file)

Preposition

к (k)

  1. to, toward
    к до́муk dómuto the house
    к бра́туk brátuto (my) brother
    ко мнеko mneto me
  2. by, for (of time)
    ко вто́рникуko vtórnikuby Tuesday, for Tuesday
  3. against (change of position)
    к стене́k stenéagainst the wall
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-).

Etymology 3

Abbreviation of кило- (kilo-).

Pronunciation

Prefix

к (k)

  1. k, kilo- (x 1000)

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

Letter

к (lower case, upper case К, Latin spelling k)

  1. The twelfth letter of the Serbo-Croatian alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.

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Etymology 2

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *kъ(n), from Proto-Indo-European *kom.

Alternative forms

  • ка (See usage notes)

Preposition

к (Latin spelling k) (+ dative case)

  1. to
  2. 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

Southern Altai

Letter

к (k) (lower case, upper case К)

  1. The thirteenth letter of the Southern Altai alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.

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Tabasaran

Letter

к (k) (lower case, upper case К)

  1. The fifteenth letter of the Tabasaran alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.

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Tajik

Letter

к (k) (lower case, upper case К)

  1. The fourteenth letter of the Tajik alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.

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Tatar

Letter

к (k) (lower case, upper case К)

  1. The fourteenth letter of the Tatar alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.

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Tundra Nenets

Letter

к () (lower case, upper case К)

  1. The twelfth letter of the Tundra Nenets alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.

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Tuvan

Letter

к (k) (lower case, upper case К)

  1. The twelfth letter of the Tuvan alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.

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Udmurt

Letter

к (k) (lower case, upper case К)

  1. The fifteenth letter of the Udmurt alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.

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Ukrainian

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Letter

к (k) (lower case, upper case К)

  1. The fifteenth letter of the Ukrainian alphabet, called ка (ka), and written in the Cyrillic script.

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Etymology 2

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *kъ(n).

Pronunciation

Preposition

к (k) (+ dative case) (dated)

  1. to, toward
  2. by, for (of time)
  3. against (change of position)
Usage notes

This word is very dated, although remnants of it exist in set phrases, such as к бісу (k bisu) and нікчемний (nikčemnyj).

Alternative forms
Synonyms

Further reading

Uzbek

Letter

к (k) (lower case, upper case К)

  1. The twelfth letter of the Uzbek alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.

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Western Mari

Letter

к (k) (lower case, upper case К)

  1. The thirteenth letter of the Western Mari alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.

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Yakut

Letter

к (k) (lower case, upper case К)

  1. The fourteenth letter of the Yakut alphabet, called кы (), and written in the Cyrillic script.

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