It commonly represents the voiceless velar plosive /k/, like the pronunciation of ⟨k⟩ in "ing" or "ick".

Kra is a glyph formerly used to write the Kalaallisut language of Greenland and is now only found in Inuttitut, a distinct Inuktitut dialect. It is visually similar to a Latin small capital letter ᴋ,