T

T (named tee /ˈtiː/^[1]) is the 20t letter in the ISO basic Latin alphabet. It is the maist commonly uised consonant an the seicond maist common letter in the Inglish leid.^[2]

T 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 't' and capital 'T' in the U.S. D'Nealian script style

History

Phoenician Taw	Etruscan T	Greek Tau

Taw wis the last letter o the Wastren Semitic an Hebrew alphabets. The soond value o Semitic Taw, Greek alphabet Tαυ (Tau), Auld Italic an Latin T haes remained fairly constant, representin [t] in each o thir; an it haes an aa kept its oreeginal basic shape in aw o thir alphabets.

Uisage

In Inglis, ⟨t⟩ eften denotes the voiceless alveolar plosive (Internaitional Phonetic Alphabet an X-SAMPA: /t/), as in "tea", "tee", or "ties", eften wi aspiration at the beginnins o wirds or afore stressed vowels.

Relatit letters an ither similar characters

• Τ τ : Greek letter Tau
• Т т : Cyrillic letter Te

Computin codes

Character	T		t
Unicode name	LATIN CAIPITAL LETTER T		LATIN SMAA LETTER T
Encodins	decimal	hex	decimal	hex
Unicode	84	U+0054	116	U+0074
UTF-8	84	54	116	74
Numeric chairacter reference	T	T	t	t
EBCDIC faimily	227	E3	163	A3
ASCII 1	84	54	116	74

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
Tango	–

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