Latin Small Letter K
Part of Basic ASCII: Alt 33 to 126
On Windows, hold Alt and type 107 on the numeric keypad to insert latin small letter k.
- Alt code
- Alt+107
- HTML entity
- k
- Unicode
- U+006B
About this symbol
A small k means a thousand, as in 10k for a ten-kilometre run or a salary of £30k. It comes from kilo, the metric prefix taken from the Greek khilioi, a thousand, and adopted in France in 1795.
Unicode facts
- Official name
- LATIN SMALL LETTER K
- Type
- Lowercase letter
- Unicode block
- Basic Latin
- Unicode group
- Lowercase 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.