ك different from ق
Hebrew pronunciation
The letter kaf is one of the six letters that can receive a dagesh kal. The other five are bet, gimel, daleth, pe, and tav (see Hebrew alphabet for more about these letters).
There are two orthographic variants of this letter that alter the pronunciation:Arabic kāf
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:the basic form is used for the Arabic language and many other languages and is the Naskh glyph form:the cross-barred form, notably al-kāf al-mashkūlah or al-kāf al-mashqūqah, is the Nastaliq form used predominantly in the Perso-Arabic script and as an alternative form of the version above in all forms of Arabic. It has a particular use in the Sindhi language of Pakistan where it represents the aspirated /kʰ/ and is called keheh.the long s-shaped variant form, al-kāf al-mabsūṭah, which is used in Arabic texts and in Thuluth and Kufic. It is a separate letter in the Sindhi language of Pakistan, where it represents the unaspirated /k/.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].