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The eleventh letter of the Hebrew alphabet is called "Kaf" and has the sound of "k" as in " k ite." In modern Hebrew, the letter Kaf can appear in three forms: Write the manual print version of Kaf as follows: A single stroke, like a backwards "c" is used to form this letter. And the cursive version:
Kaf (כּ) is the eleventh letter of the Hebrew alphabet Numerical value: 20 Sound: "K" with a dagesh (dot) and "KH" without a dagesh Meaning: Palm, spoon, crown
Kaph (also spelled kaf) is the eleventh letter of the Semitic abjads, including Arabic kāf ك , Aramaic kāp 𐡊, Hebrew kāp̄ כ , Phoenician kāp 𐤊, and Syriac kāp̄ ܟ. The Phoenician letter gave rise to the Greek kappa (Κ), Latin K, and Cyrillic К.
The letter kaf is bent. It represents a כַּף יָד ( kaf yad ) palm of a hand , like its name – kaf . It is shaped like a vessel that could hold and accommodate things within it.
Kaf is a Hebrew letter with two sounds. When it has a dot in the middle (dagesh), it’s pronounced like the “k” in “kite.” Without the dagesh, it softens to a “kh” sound, resembling the “ch” in the Scottish word “loch” or the German “Bach.”
Kaf, Mem, Nun, Peh and Tzadeh all are written differently when they appear at the end of a word than when they appear in the beginning or middle of the word. The version used at the end of a word is referred to as Final Kaf, Final Mem, etc. The version of the letter on the left is the final version.
The Hebrew alphabet, or the Aleph Bet, consists of 22 letters. The Aleph Bet is also used to write other Jewish languages, like Yiddish, Ladino, Aramaic, Judeo-Persian and Judeo-Arabic. In Hebrew, the letters are all consonants and the language is comprehensible when written without vowels.
