P
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Cursive script 'p' and capital 'P' in the U.S. D'Nealian script style
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P (named pee /ˈpiː/[1] ) is the saxteent letter o the ISO basic Latin alphabet.
Uisage
eeditIn Inglis an maist ither European leids, P is a voiceless bilabial plosive. Baith ineetial an final ‹p›s can be combined wi mony ither discrete consonants in Inglis wirds. A common example o assimilation is the tendency o prefixes endin in ‹n› tae assume an ‹m› soond afore ‹p›s (such as: in + pulse → impulse — see: Leet o Latin wirds wi Inglis derivatives).
A common digraph in Inglis is ‹ph›, which represents the voiceless labiodental fricative /f/, an can be uised tae transleeterate Phi (‹φ›) in loanwords frae Greek. In German, the digraph ‹pf› is common, representin a labial affricate o /pf/.
Arabic speakers are uisually unaccustomed tae pronooncin /p/; thay pronoonce it as /b/. In wirds that Arabic inheritit frae the Proto-Semitic leid, /p/ is uisually pronoonced /f/.
Maist Inglis wirds beginnin wi P are o foreign origin, primarily French, Latin, Greek, an Slavic; thir leids preserve Proto-Indo-European initial /*p/. Native Inglis cognates o sic wirds eften stairt wi F, syne Inglis is a Germanic leid an sicweys haes unnergone Grimm's law; a native Inglis wird wi initial /p/ wad reflect Proto-Indo-European ineetial /*b/, which is sae rare that its existence as a phoneme is disputit.
Houiver, native Inglish wirds wi non-initial P are quite common; sic wirds can come frae aither Kluge's law or the sp combination; PIE /*p/ is preserved efter s.
History
eeditPhoenician P |
Archaic Greek Pi |
Greek Pi |
Etruscan P |
Latin P |
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Relatit letters an ither similar characters
eeditThe Latin letter P represents the same soond as the Greek letter pi, but it leuks lik the Greek letter rho.
- Π π : Greek letter Pi
- П п : Cyrillic letter Pe
- Ρ ρ/ϱ : Greek letter Rho
- Р р : Cyrillic letter Er
- פ ף : Hebrew letter Pe
- ℘ : script letter P, see Weierstrass p
- Ⓟ ⓟ : circled Latin letter P
- ℗ : soond recordin copyricht seembol
- Þ þ : Latin letter Thorn
- Ƿ ƿ : Latin letter Wynn
Computin codes
eeditCharacter | P | p | ||
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Unicode name | LATIN CAIPITAL LETTER P | LATIN SMAA LETTER P | ||
Encodins | decimal | hex | decimal | hex |
Unicode | 80 | U+0050 | 112 | U+0070 |
UTF-8 | 80 | 50 | 112 | 70 |
Numeric chairacter reference | P | P | p | p |
EBCDIC faimily | 215 | D7 | 151 | 97 |
ASCII 1 | 80 | 50 | 112 | 70 |
- 1 An aa for encodins based on ASCII, includin the DOS, Windows, ISO-8859 an Macintosh faimilies o encodins.
Ither representations
eeditNATO phonetic | Morse code |
Papa |
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Seegnal banner | Banner semaphore | American manual alphabet (ASL fingerspellin) | Braille |
References
eedit- ↑ "P", Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition (1989); Merriam-Webster's Third New International Dictionary of the English Language, Unabridged (1993); "pee," op. cit.
Freemit airtins
eedit- Media relatit tae P at Wikimedia Commons
- The dictionar defineetion o P at Wiktionary
- The dictionar defineetion o p at Wiktionary
Aa | Bb | Cc | Dd | Ee | Ff | Gg | Hh | Ii | Jj | Kk | Ll | Mm | Nn | Oo | Pp | Rr | Ss | Tt | Uu | Vv | Ww | Xx | Yy | Zz | ||
Letter P with diacritics
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Ṕṕ | Ṗṗ | Ᵽᵽ | Ƥƥ | P̃p̃ | ᵱ | ᶈ | ||||||||||||||||||||
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