P

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

P 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

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

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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