P

P
ISO basic Laitin alphabet

Cursive script 'p' and capital 'P' in the U.S. D'Nealian script style

P (named pee /ˈpiː/^[1] ) is the saxteent letter o the ISO basic Latin alphabet.

Uisage

In 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

Phoenician P	Archaic Greek Pi	Greek Pi	Etruscan P	Latin P

Relatit letters an ither similar characters

The 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

Character	P		p
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

NATO phonetic	Morse code
Papa	·––·

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Seegnal banner	Banner semaphore	American manual alphabet (ASL fingerspellin)	Braille

References

↑ "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

Media relatit tae P at Wikimedia Commons
The dictionar defineetion o P at Wiktionary
The dictionar defineetion o p at Wiktionary

The ISO basic Laitin alphabet v t e
Aa	Bb	Cc	Dd	Ee	Ff	Gg	Hh	Ii	Jj	Kk	Ll	Mm	Nn	Oo	Pp	Qq	Rr	Ss	Tt	Uu	Vv	Ww	Xx	Yy	Zz
Letter P with diacritics
Ṕṕ	Ṗṗ	Ᵽᵽ	Ƥƥ	P̃p̃	ᵱ	ᶈ
Related
Derivations Diacritics History ISO/IEC 646 Leet o letters Numerals Palaeography Punctuation Unicode

[1] "P", Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition (1989); Merriam-Webster's Third New International Dictionary of the English Language, Unabridged (1993); "pee," op. cit.

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