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Low class consonant · letter 6 of 44

ฆ kho rakhang

ฆ (kho rakhang) is a low-class consonant named after ระฆัง, “bell”. At the start of a syllable it is /kʰ/, written kh in RTGS; at the end of one it is /k̚/ (k).

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ฆฆ ระฆังkho rakhang · bell
Thai name
ฆ ระฆัง · kho rakhang
Name word
ระฆัง, bell
Class
Low class
At the start of a syllable
/kʰ/ · RTGS kh
At the end of a syllable
/k̚/ · RTGS k
Unicode
U+0E06 · THAI CHARACTER KHO RAKHANG
In HTML
ฆ or ฆ
Kedmanee key
Shift + S
Pattachote key
Shift + ;

How it sounds

A third letter for kh, with the same sound as ค. It is found mostly in words that came into Thai from Pali and Sanskrit.

4 other letters have the same sound at the start of a syllable: ข kho khai (high), ฃ kho khuat (high), ค kho khwai (low), ฅ kho khon (low).

Easy to mistake for ม mo ma: compare them at a large size in the grid below.

Class and tone

With no mark, a low-class letter gives the mid tone in a live syllable; in a dead one the tone is high when the vowel is short and falling when it is long. Mai ek gives falling and mai tho high.

Syllables with ฆ and the vowel า
SpellingSyllableTone
No mark, live syllable (long vowel)ฆาMid
No mark, dead syllable, short vowelฆะHigh
No mark, dead syllable, long vowelฆากFalling
Mai ekฆ่าFalling
Mai thoฆ้าHigh
Mai tri–not used with this class
Mai chattawa–not used with this class

The syllables show the rule, not words to learn. The tone rules explain live and dead syllables.

Words with ฆ

ThaiRTGSMeaning
ฆ่าkhato kill
ฆ้องkhonggong
เมฆmekcloud
โฆษณาkhotsanaadvertisement

RTGS shows neither tone nor vowel length; type a word into the font tester to see it in every font.

ฆ in every font

The letter in each of the 61 families you can download here, in its regular style. Looped faces start the stroke from a small circle; loopless ones leave it out. Each card opens the family’s page.