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κ Mechanism
Kappa (; uppercase Κ, lowercase κ or cursive ; , ''káppa'') is the tenth letter of the Greek alphabet, representing the voiceless velar plosive sound in Ancient and Modern Greek. In the system of Greek numerals, has a value of 20. It was derived from the Phoenician letter kaph . Letters that arose from kappa include the Roman K and Cyrillic К. The uppercase form is identical to the Latin K. Greek proper names and placenames containing kappa are often written in English with "c" due to the Romans' transliterations into the Latin alphabet: Constantinople, Corinth, Crete. All formal modern romanizations of Greek now use the letter "k", however. The cursive form is generally a simple font variant of lower-case kappa, but it is encoded separately in Unicode for occasions where it is used as a separate symbol in math and science. In mathematics, the kappa curve is named after this letter; the tangents of this curve were first calculated by Isaac Barrow in the 17th centur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ka (Cyrillic)
Ka (К к; italics: ''К к'') is a letter of the Cyrillic script. It commonly represents the voiceless velar plosive /k/, like the pronunciation of ⟨k⟩ in "king" or "kick". History The Cyrillic letter Ka was derived from the Kappa (letter), Greek letter Kappa (Κ κ). In the Early Cyrillic alphabet its name was (''kako''), meaning "as". In the Cyrillic numerals, Cyrillic numeral system, Ka had a value of 20. Form The Cyrillic letter Ka Homoglyph, looks very similar, and corresponds to the K, Latin letter K. In many fonts, Cyrillic Ka is differentiated from its Latin and Greek counterparts by drawing one or both of its diagonal spurs with curved instead of straight. Also in some fonts the lowercase form of Ka has the vertical bar elongated above x-height, resembling the Latin lowercase k. Usage In Russian language, Russian, the letter Ka represents the plain voiceless velar plosive or the palatalized one ; for example, the word "" (''"short"'') contains b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
