Kāf
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| Phonemic representation | k, x | |||||||||
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| Position in alphabet | 11 | |||||||||
| Numerical value | 20 | |||||||||
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Kaf (also spelled kaph) is the eleventh letter of the Semitic abjads, including Phoenician Kāp 
, Hebrew Kāf כ, Aramaic Kāp 
, Syriac Kāp̄ ܟܟ, and Arabic Kāf ک/ك (in Abjadi order).
The Phoenician letter gave rise to the Greek kappa (Κ), Latin K, and Cyrillic К.
Kaph is thought to have been derived from a pictogram of a hand (in both modern Arabic and modern Hebrew, kaph means palm/grip).
The letter is named kāf, and it is written in several ways depending on its position in the word.
There are three variants of the letter:
In varieties of Arabic kāf is almost universally pronounced as the voiceless velar plosive /k/, but in rural Palestinian and Iraqi, it is pronounced as a voiceless postalveolar affricate [t͡ʃ]. In Moroccan Arabic it's pronounced as k, g or ch.
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