The voiceless velar stop is a type of consonant.
The letter for this sound in the International Phonetic Alphabet is ⟨k⟩. The X-SAMPA symbol for this sound is ⟨k⟩. The English language has this sound, and it is the sound represented by the "c" in care and the "k" in kiss.
Voiceless velar plosive | |
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k | |
IPA number | 109 |
Encoding | |
Entity (decimal) | k |
Unicode (hex) | U+006B |
X-SAMPA | k |
Kirshenbaum | k |
Sound | |
Language | Word | IPA | Meaning | |
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Abkhaz | ақалақь/ak̇halak̇h’ | [ˈakalakʲ] | 'the city' | |
Adyghe | Shapsug | кьэт/k′ėt | [kʲat] (help·info) | 'chicken' |
Temirgoy | пскэн/pskėn | [pskan] | ||
Ahtna | gistaann | [kɪstʰɐːn] | 'six' | |
Aleut | kiikax̂ | [kiːkaχ] | 'cranberry bush' | |
Arabic | Modern Standard | كتب/kutib | [ˈkatabɐ] | 'he wrote' |
Armenian | Eastern | քաղաք/ k'aġak'/k'aghak | [kʰɑˈʁɑkʰ] | 'town' |
Assamese | কম/kom | [kɔm] | 'less' | |
Assyrian | ܟܬܒ̣ܐ ctava | [ktava] | 'book' | |
Basque | katu | [kat̪u] | 'cat' | |
Bengali | কম/kom | [kɔm] | 'less' | |
Bulgarian | как/kak | [kak] | 'how' | |
Catalan | cors | [ˈkɔ(ɾ)s] | 'hearts' | |
Chinese | Cantonese | 家 / gā | [kaː˥] | 'home' |
Hokkien | 歌 koa | [kua] | 'song' | |
Mandarin | 高 / gāo | [kɑʊ˥] | 'high' | |
Chuvash | кукка | [ku'kːɑ] | 'mother's brother' | |
Czech | kost | [kost] | 'bone' | |
Danish | Standard | gås | [ˈkɔ̽ːs] | 'goose' |
Dutch | koning | [ˈkoːnɪŋ] | 'king' | |
English | kiss | [kʰɪs] | 'kiss' | |
Esperanto | rakonto | [raˈkonto] | 'tale' | |
Estonian | kõik | [kɤik] | 'all' | |
Filipino | kuto | [ˈkuto] | 'lice' | |
Finnish | kakku | [kɑkːu] | 'cake' | |
French | cabinet | [kabinɛ] | 'office' | |
Georgian | ქვა/kva | [kʰva] | 'stone' | |
German | Käfig | [ˈkʰɛːfɪç] | 'cage' | |
Greek | καλόγερος / kalógeros | [kaˈlo̞ʝe̞ro̞s̠] | 'monk' | |
Gujarati | કાંદો/kaṃde | [kɑːnd̪oː] | 'onion' | |
Hebrew | כסף / kesef | [ˈkesef] | 'money' | |
Hiligaynon | kadlaw | [kad̪law] | 'laugh' | |
Hindustani | काम / کام | [kɑːm] | 'work' | |
Hungarian | akkor | [ɒkkor] | 'then' | |
Italian | casa | [ˈkäːzä] | 'house' | |
Japanese | 鞄 / kaban | [kabaɴ] | 'handbag' | |
Kagayanen | kalag | [kað̞aɡ] | 'spirit' | |
Khmer | កម្ពុជា / kâmpŭchéa | [kampuciːə] | 'Cambodia' | |
Korean | 감자 / kamja | [kamdʑa] | 'potato' | |
Lakota | kimímela | [kɪˈmɪmela] | 'butterfly' | |
Luxembourgish | geess | [ˈkeːs] | 'goat' | |
Macedonian | кој | [kɔj] | 'who' | |
Marathi | कवच | [kəʋət͡s] | 'armour' | |
Malay | kaki | [käki] | 'leg' | |
Nepali | केरा | [keɾä] | 'banana' | |
Norwegian | kake | [kɑːkɛ] | 'cake' | |
Odia | କାମ/kāma | [kämɔ] | 'work' | |
Pashto | كال/kal | [kɑl] | 'year' | |
Persian | کارد/kārd | [kɑrd] | 'knife' | |
Polish | buk | [ˈbuk] (help·info) | 'beech tree' | |
Portuguese | corpo | [ˈkoɾpu] | 'body' | |
Punjabi | ਕਰ/کر/kar | [kəɾ] | 'do' | |
Romanian | când | [ˈkɨnd] | 'when' | |
Russian | короткий/korotkiy | [kɐˈrotkʲɪj] (help·info) | 'short' | |
Serbo-Croatian | кост / kost | [kȏːs̪t̪] | 'bone' | |
Slovak | kosť | [kɔ̝stɕ] | 'bone' | |
Spanish | casa | [ˈkäsä] | 'house' | |
Swedish | ko | [ˈkʰuː] | 'cow' | |
Sylheti | ꠇꠤꠔꠣ/kita | [kɪt̪à] | 'what' | |
Tamil | கை/kai | [kəɪ̯] | 'hand' | |
Telugu | కాకి/kāki | [kāki] | 'crow' | |
Thai | ไก่/kị̀ | [kaj˨˩] | 'chicken' | |
Turkish | kulak | [kʰuɫäk] | 'ear' | |
Ubykh | кауар/kawar | [kawar] | 'slat' | |
Ukrainian | колесо/koleso | [ˈkɔɫɛsɔ] | 'wheel' | |
Vietnamese | cam | [kam] | 'orange' | |
Welsh | calon | [kalɔn] | 'heart' | |
West Frisian | keal | [kɪəl] | 'calf' | |
Yi | ꇰ / ge | [kɤ˧] | 'foolish' | |
Zapotec | Tilquiapan | canza | [kanza] | 'walking' |
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