High class · อักษรสูง
ฃ
ขวด bottle
kɔ̌ɔ kùat
Hardly used today
- Class
- high
- Sound
- k / k
- Correct answers
- —
Answers in practice
This letter hasn't come up in practice yet.
How it reads
- Letter name
- kɔ̌ɔ kùat
- At the start of a syllable
- “k”
- At the end of a syllable
- “k”
- Class
- high (อักษรสูง)
How it looks in different fonts
In a book, a notebook or on a sign this character can look different. The classic style has a loop (หัว) where you start writing. Sign fonts often drop it, and handwriting makes the lines smoother. You can choose the app's font in settings.
ฃ
classic
books
ฃ
handwritten
by hand
ฃ
modern
signs
Which tones it gives
A live syllable with no mark gets the rising tone, a dead one the low tone. Marks: ◌่ → low, ◌้ → falling.
Kai says
ฃ is named after ขวด, bottle, but the letter went out of use long ago. Even the word ขวด is now written with an ordinary ข.