Latin Capital Letter K
Part of Basic ASCII: Alt 33 to 126
On Windows, hold Alt and type 75 on the numeric keypad to insert latin capital letter k.
- Alt code
- Alt+75
- HTML entity
- K
- Unicode
- U+004B
About this symbol
K comes from kaph, the Phoenician letter whose name meant the palm of a hand. Latin rarely used it, preferring C, which is why English has two letters for the same sound, as in cat and kit.
Unicode facts
- Official name
- LATIN CAPITAL LETTER K
- Type
- Uppercase letter
- Unicode block
- Basic Latin
- Unicode group
- Uppercase Latin alphabet
- Added in
- Unicode 1.1 (1993)
Click the symbol or any value at the top of the page to copy it. See the full Basic ASCII: Alt 33 to 126 chart for related characters.