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กำลังโหลด
กำลังโหลด
A high-class consonant. It says kh at the start of a syllable and -k at the end. 3rd in the alphabet, 20th of the 44 to learn here. You will meet it almost never.
5 of the 44 letters open a syllable with kh, so the sound on its own will never tell you which one you are looking at. 6 letters close one with -k, and ฃ is among them.
High class takes only two of the four marks. Unmarked and live, ฃ rises; ◌่ pulls it low and ◌้ makes it fall. Every dead syllable is low, and there is no mark that can change that.
The same letter is two sounds: ฃ is kh at the front of a syllable and -k at the back. Of the 4,271 words in this app it opens 0, sits inside 0 and closes 0.
Position here is orthographic — where the letter is written, not where it is said. The five leading vowels เ แ โ ใ ไ are skipped when deciding what comes first, so ไก่ counts as a word that starts with ก.
ฃ begins none of the 4,271 words here, because it begins no word in modern Thai. It was retired from the language and its work handed to a sister letter — but it keeps its seat in the alphabet, 3rd of 44, so you still have to know it on sight.
It sits inside none of them either. Every specimen on this page is a rule, not a word: what ฃ would do, if anyone still wrote it.
And it closes none. The -k ending is real and the rules give it to ฃ, but no word here spells it that way.
A word list is a specimen jar, and this letter has nothing in the field.
Not one of the 221 sentences and phrases in this app contains ฃ, and not one of the 4,271 words does either. There is nothing to show you, and that absence is the fact worth knowing about this letter.
ฃ is one of 11 high-class consonants. That membership is the single fact the ladder in 02 is built on — change the class and every tone in it changes. Here they all are, with ฃ lit among them.
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