Talk:K

Looped K
There's no mention of the lower-case K that has a loop in it instead of the top diagonal. The articles for a and g talk about both versions of their respective lower-case characters. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.30.14.50 (talk) 02:39, 17 July 2009 (UTC) 113.11.225.180 (talk) 09:31, 5 September 2009 (UTC) k is the most used letter after e


 * I know that commenting on a 14 year-old post and expecting for a reply is hopeless, so i’ll leave this as a note to other editors: 1. Lowercase letters have been invented to be written quickly so the lowercase k with a loop is only used in running writing. I can see why this person might have got confused here. 2. The proper lowercase ‘k’ is mentioned sufficiently enough times along with the proper lowercase ‘a’ and ‘g’ in their equivalent pages. Iamamodforjellymario (talk) 10:31, 5 June 2024 (UTC)

Meaning?
When I was in law school, we used K to mean "contract." Anyone else do this as a law student or lawyer? --&#9829; «Charles A. L.» 04:21, Apr 20, 2004 (UTC)

Fixing the top of this article
Somebody please fix the top of this article; it looks very DIRTY.


 * It does, but I can't for the life of me figure out what the hell is wrong.  &mdash;  Il&gamma;&alpha;&eta;&epsilon;&rho;   (T&alpha;l&kappa;)  20:25, 19 Sep 2004 (UTC)


 * Go to "edit this page" and study the way it was typed; and that should give you a clue. 66.245.124.202 20:27, 19 Sep 2004 (UTC)

@User:66.245.124.202, I will say you need to point where the problem is. Regarding that article, I can't find anything wrong with it. All the Best! Otuọcha  (talk) 01:01, 2 April 2024 (UTC)


 * If it was dirty before, it looks like it is completely fixed now. Iamamodforjellymario (talk) 10:33, 5 June 2024 (UTC)

Maluma and Takete
Someone changed the phrase "Not surprisingly, several languages use characters with sharp angles to indicate the sound /k/ " to "Surprisingly..." I guess this is subjective, but to me it came as no surprise when I realised it was the case. I thought the Maluma/Takete distinction was widely known, but it isn't even mentioned in Wikipedia - perhaps because one needs copyright to reproduce the figures. Anyhow, if no one has any objections, I suggest we remove the adverb altogether to "Several languages use characters with sharp angles to indicate the sound /k/ ", and then it's up to the reader to become surprised or not.


 * I agree; I'd been considering doing this myself. FourlopadDALiSZooohfour 12:13, 18 March 2006 (UTC)

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k is also thermal conductivity
k is also thermal conductivity in physics. i would edit it myself but have :Unsigned -->
 * Done.--58.104.75.186 07:24, 16 July 2006 (UTC)

K in cyclops
Why the hell do some writers try to ruin the only perfect letter in our God-Forsaken alphabet by making it also have an s sound?Cameron Nedland 21:04, 30 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Erm...cyclops doesn't have a K in it. --Brain 00:05, 1 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Perhaps he meant to post this on the letter C? Shinobu 19:21, 1 March 2007 (UTC)

Cyrillic К
Should we add also some info about cyrillic K?
 * Done. Shinobu 19:20, 1 March 2007 (UTC)

Taiwan?
"'K書' (literally k the book) means read the book." Why? Any references for this? Etymology? Shinobu 19:17, 1 March 2007 (UTC)

In gaming K stands for 1,000


 * I'm a native Taiwanese and I can confirm this (a more accurate translation would be "to study hard"), although I had a hard time trying to find references; most people just use it so naturally, I think. Here is a news article from Xinhua net talking about Taiwan slangs.


 * One possible etymology is that "K" is short for "看 (kàn)". That's doubtful, though, since Taiwanese people aren't normally familiar with pinyin; another possible explanation provided in the Xinhua article above is that it originally referred to the king in poker cards, but then it expanded its meaning to denote taking a vigorous move to tackle something. Indeed, there is also "K歌" which just means to sing. However I think that usage is also present in Hong Kong, because Eason Chan had a song called "K歌之王" (The king of singing). Keith Galveston (talk) 15:01, 19 February 2008 (UTC)

K in games
In some video games K means 1,000 —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Full Throttle FURY (talk • contribs) 16:40, 6 March 2007 (UTC).
 * K stands for kilo (Latin for thousand, I think).  Sala Skan  22:04, 7 June 2007 (UTC)
 * As well, K is the only Scrabble tile with point value 5. Should I add that to the article? ZtObOr 23:46, 10 February 2008 (UTC)

j 03:10, 25 May 2008 (UTC)03:10, 25 May 2008 (UTC)03:10, 25 May 2008 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.180.11.77 (talk)

K is also used by many scorers as an abbreviation for strikeout in baseball --Slxception (talk) 20:42, 10 October 2009 (UTC)

No productive "Hard C" in Germanic languages other than English?
Dutch seems to C in German exists singly in words adopted directly from Italian (cello, cembalo) when it represents the palatal affricate and of course in "ch", "sch", and "tsch". —Preceding unsigned comment added by Paul from Michigan (talk • contribs) 20:26, 4 October 2007 (UTC)

Symbols using K?
Is there a list of symbols using K or a circled K? Aside from the Circle K convenience store chain, I saw a circled K on a circuit board in a CD player, and was wondering what it meant.

External links modified
Hello fellow Wikipedians,

I have just added archive links to 1 one external link on K. Please take a moment to review my edit. If necessary, add after the link to keep me from modifying it. Alternatively, you can add to keep me off the page altogether. I made the following changes:
 * Added archive https://web.archive.org/20150626134615/http://dictionary.oed.com/cgi/entry/50124982?query_type=word&queryword=k&first=1&max_to_show=10&sort_type=alpha&result_place=1&search_id=h5Sx-nTaC9b-24269&hilite=50124982 to http://dictionary.oed.com/cgi/entry/50124982?query_type=word&queryword=k&first=1&max_to_show=10&sort_type=alpha&result_place=1&search_id=h5Sx-nTaC9b-24269&hilite=50124982

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Link rot had set in before url was archived. Worldbruce (talk) 22:22, 2 May 2016 (UTC)

Cheers. —cyberbot II  Talk to my owner :Online 12:37, 26 August 2015 (UTC)

Please watch this paragraph
This article has a paragraph saying:

''In the earliest Latin inscriptions, the letters C, K and Q were all used to represent the sounds /k/ and /g/ (which were not differentiated in writing). Of these, Q was used to represent /k/ or /g/ before a rounded vowel, K before /a/, and C elsewhere. Later, the use of C and its variant G replaced most usages of K and Q. K survived only in a few fossilized forms such as Kalendae, "the calends".[4]''

Please note that this paragraph of the article needs to be improved by including why B/P and D/T didn't get a similar story. Georgia guy (talk) 00:59, 1 March 2018 (UTC)

Hello! http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0059%3Aentry%3DG, if you see here, you'd see that the /g/ was unstable as it was likely palatized, as in the modern Romance languages, or deleted after thorough softening, for example we have "quick" in english cognate with latin "vivus" which actually would have more alike English as "guivus",but was softened into "vivus". Only with Classical Latin it was settled & standardized what would take "g" & what not. However, "b" & "d" also go back softer sounds in Proto-Italic, & sometimes they'll come up in imitative words "balbus" or be as muddled as "g" as in "lingua" that which would have been "dingua", again, more like our "tongue". Yoandri Dominguez Garcia 03:35, 9 September 2018 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Yoandri Dominguez Garcia (talk • contribs)

Something misleading here
"It is the fifth least frequently used letter in the English language, with a frequency of about 0.8% in words."

However, since English has over all a heavily French & Latin borrowed wordstock, this is not wholly true. Once borrowed are discarded, K is more often as in, kick, kite, king, kiss, etc, (which if french, would have been, quique, quite, quingue, quisse, etc. or something alike.) Yoandri Dominguez Garcia 03:30, 9 September 2018 (UTC)


 * There's no reason to exclude borrowed words. —Granger (talk · contribs) 12:20, 9 September 2018 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 2 August 2019
Change MESURE to MEASURE in the sentence 'K is the unit symbol for the kelvin, used to mesure thermodynamic temperature.' Dave suv (talk) 01:38, 2 August 2019 (UTC)
 * Yes check.svg Done  JTP (talk • contribs) 01:55, 2 August 2019 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 12 November 2019
At present the article Potash uses the standalone letter "K", perfectly correctly but without explanation, in the "History" section. I want to link it to this article's "K is the chemical symbol for the element potassium," etc. but this would need an WP:anchor. Thus, may please be inserted adjoining the piece of text here, then I can add the link in the Potash article. Thanks.--217.155.32.221 (talk) 11:31, 12 November 2019 (UTC)


 * ❌. Such a link would run afoul of MOS:EGG.  There's no apparent use for linking to the article about the letter K from an article that uses it in one specific way.  If you think it's unclear in that article, you can simply add a bit of explanatory text instead. –Deacon Vorbis (carbon &bull; videos) 14:32, 12 November 2019 (UTC)
 * OK I'll think about that instead.--217.155.32.221 (talk) 14:53, 12 November 2019 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 5 April 2020
2409:4052:2007:360C:BC38:46CA:3A26:9DC7 (talk) 05:55, 5 April 2020 (UTC)
 * Red question icon with gradient background.svg Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format and provide a reliable source if appropriate. Jamietw (talk) 11:12, 5 April 2020 (UTC)

Other usage
The second-last bullet point is This is incorrect: it should be a lower case k, which is the shorthand notation for kilo, the SI multiplier for 1,000. Upper case K is the "binary thousand", i.e. 210 = 1024. Prisoner of Zenda (talk) 02:49, 23 May 2020 (UTC)
 * When expressing amounts of money, $20K means twenty thousand dollars.

Kelvin sign
we use k to signify the kelvin in the kelvin thermometer.

Semi-protected edit request on 28 July 2020
the letter k is used in many words and is also used instead of the letter c Dancemacha (talk) 09:17, 28 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Seems to be already mentioned. – Thjarkur (talk) 11:04, 28 July 2020 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 25 May 2021
In the Ancestors, descendants, and siblings section, turn Ḱ ḱ into Ḱ|Ḱ ḱ (e.g. link the lowercase) and Ǩ ǩ into Ǩ|Ǩ ǩ (e.g. do the same thing). 50.196.175.13 (talk) 21:24, 25 May 2021 (UTC)
 * ✅, added commas to separate the links.  TG HL ↗  🍁 22:52, 25 May 2021 (UTC)

Josef K
Worth mentioning that Josef K were also a Scottish post-punk band active between 1979 and 1982. 37.235.43.27 (talk) 07:48, 12 March 2022 (UTC)


 * Unrelated to this page. (CC) Tb hotch ™ 21:15, 12 March 2022 (UTC)

This wiki page
This does not give me any information about what I was searching for so they better fix it! 76.170.32.23 (talk) 21:03, 4 February 2024 (UTC)


 * Thank you for your comment. What were you searching for?  If it was some other topic called K such as a band or film, they are listed in K (disambiguation), which is linked at the top of the K article. Certes (talk) 21:22, 4 February 2024 (UTC)