Kāf

This article describes the letter ك from the Arabic basic alphabet and the graphic modification ک. The letter of the same name in the Arabic alphabet of Sindhi (ڪ) is described in the article Kaf (Sindhi letter) .

Kaf in isolated form

connected shapes
ـك	ـكـ	كـ
from the right	both sides	to the left

Kāf كافis the 22nd letter of the Arabic alphabet . It emerged from the Phoenician kapha and is related to the Latin K , the Greek kappa and the Hebrew kaph . The numerical value 20 is assigned to it.

Sound value and transcription

The Kaf corresponds to the German K in "Kaufmann". It is therefore reproduced with a "k" in the DMG inscription.

Graphic modifications

The Persian Kaf in its isolated form. Unicode name KEHEH

connected shapes
ـک	ـکـ	کـ
to the right	both sides	to the left

In Persian , the Kaf is written differently in Arabic (ک). To the non occurring in Scripture Arab write "g" sound, was in the Persian alphabet also the letter Gaf (گ) developed from the kaf. In the Pashtun alphabet , this gaf has its own form (ګ).

In Sindhi the Persian form of Kaf, called Khe , stands for an aspirated "k" (IPA: [ kʰ ]), the non-aspirated "k" becomes with the graphic modificationڪ written.

Kaf in Unicode

Unicode codepoint	U + 0643
Unicode name	ARABIC LETTER KAF
HTML	& # 1603;
ISO 8859-6	0xe3

The Persian Kaf has its own code:

Unicode codepoint	U + 06A9
Unicode name	ARABIC LETTER KEHEH
HTML	& # 1705;
ISO 8859-6	unavailable

Web links

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