K, or k, is the eleventh letter of the modern English alphabet and the ISO basic Latin alphabet.

Its name
in English is kay, plural kays. The letter K usually represents the voiceless velar plosive. History The letter
K comes from the Greek letter Κ, which was taken from the Semitic kaph, the symbol for an open hand.
This, in turn, was likely adapted by Semitic tribes who had lived in Egypt from the hieroglyph for "hand"
representing /ḏ/ in the Egyptian word for hand, ⟨ḏ-r-t⟩ . The Semites evidently assigned it the sound
value instead, because their word for hand started with that sound. K, or k, is the eleventh letter of the
modern English alphabet and the ISO basic Latin alphabet. Its name in English is kay, plural kays. The
letter K usually represents the voiceless velar plosive. History The letter K comes from the Greek letter Κ,
which was taken from the Semitic kaph, the symbol for an open hand. This, in turn, was likely adapted
by Semitic tribes who had lived in Egypt from the hieroglyph for "hand" representing /ḏ/ in the Egyptian
word for hand, ⟨ḏ-r-t⟩ . The Semites evidently assigned it the sound value instead, because their word
for hand started with that sound.