Ke (Armenian letter)

Keh, or Kʼe (majuscule: Ք; minuscule: ք; Armenian: քե; Classical Armenian: քէ) is the thirty-sixth letter of the Armenian alphabet. It represents the voiceless aspirated velar plosive (/kʰ/) in both Eastern and Western varieties of Armenian. Created by Mesrop Mashtots in the 5th century, it has a numerical value of 9000.^[1] Its shape in lowercase form resembles to the Latin letter P (p), but stroked, and in cursive, the lowercase form resembles the letter ɬ (the voiceless alveolar lateral fricative).

Not to be confused with the Latin letters Ꝑ and Ᵽ and the Philippine peso sign (₱).

Ke
Ք ք
Usage
Writing system	Armenian script
Type	Alphabetic
Language of origin	Armenian language
Sound values	kʰ
In Unicode	U+0554, U+0584
Alphabetical position	36
History
Development	𓂧 𐤊 Χ χ Ⴕ ⴕ Ք ք
Time period	405 to present
Other
Associated numbers	9000
This article contains phonetic transcriptions in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). For an introductory guide on IPA symbols, see Help:IPA. For the distinction between [ ], / / and ⟨ ⟩, see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters.

Gallery

Various historic fonts

• 
  Rounded Erkat'agir
• 
  Angular Erkat'agir
• 
  Bolorgir
• 
  Notrgir
• 
  Shghagir
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  Typographic form
• 
  Handwritten form

Computing codes

Character information

Preview	Ք		ք
Unicode name	ARMENIAN CAPITAL LETTER KEH		ARMENIAN SMALL LETTER KEH
Encodings	decimal	hex	dec	hex
Unicode	1364	U+0554	1412	U+0584
UTF-8	213 148	D5 94	214 132	D6 84
Numeric character reference	Ք	Ք	ք	ք

See also

• K (Latin)
• P (Latin)