כ ך
ORIGINALRH-056
Hebrew Letters · Letters That Look Alike
Ordinary and final Kaf
RH-056HebrewSquare Hebrew script and Masoretic reading notation
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כ ך
Transliterationkaf · final kaf
Plain meaningSame letter, different position.
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Ordinary and final Kaf
These forms are not a confusion pair in meaning; they are two positional forms of the same letter. Kaf inside a word is כ, while word-final Kaf is ך. The final form drops downward and loses the rounded lower enclosure of ordinary Kaf.
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kaf · final kaf
READINGApproved transliteration
Same letter, different position.
MEANINGHebrew
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