כ
The eleventh letter of the Hebrew alphabet. One of the five Hebrew letters that have different forms for beginnings/middles and endings of words.
Pope Clement VIII, Jerome's Prefaces, On Worship
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I. THE HELMETED PROLOGUE.
— Jerome lists the five Hebrew letters that are doubled (have different forms for beginnings/middles and endings of words)
"Furthermore, five letters among the Hebrews are doubled: Caph, Mem, Nun, Pe, Sade; for the beginnings and middles of words are written differently through these letters than their endings."