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For ":P", see List of common emoticons but ":p" may mean printing a history expansion in Bash.[1]
For the "P#" programming language, see P Sharp.| ISO basic Latin alphabet | |||
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| 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 | ||
P (
/ˈpiː/; named pee)[2] is the sixteenth letter of the ISO basic Latin alphabet.
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[edit] Usage
In English and most other European languages, P is a voiceless bilabial plosive. Both initial and final Ps can be combined with many other discrete consonants in English words. A common example of assimilation is the tendency of prefixes ending in N to assume an M sound before Ps (such as in + pulse → impulse — see also List of Latin words with English derivatives).
A common digraph in English is ph, which represents the voiceless labiodental fricative /f/, and can be used to transliterate Phi (φ) in loanwords from Greek. In German, the digraph pf is common, representing a labial affricate of /pf/.
Arabic speakers are usually unaccustomed to pronouncing /p/; they pronounce it as /b/.
Most English words beginning with P are of foreign origin, primarily French, Latin, Greek, and Slavic. In these languages, words from Proto Indo-European have p at the beginning if they come from initial p. In English, which is a Germanic language, such words start with F.
[edit] History
| Phoenician P |
Archaic Greek Pi |
Greek Pi |
Etruscan P |
Latin P |
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[edit] Related letters and other similar characters
The Latin letter P represents the same sound as the Greek letter Pi, but it looks like 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
- ℗ : sound recording copyright symbol
- Þ þ : Latin letter Thorn
- Ƿ ƿ : Latin letter Wynn
[edit] Computing codes
| character | P | p | ||
| Unicode name | LATIN CAPITAL LETTER P |
LATIN SMALL LETTER P |
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| character encoding | decimal | hex | decimal | hex |
| Unicode | 80 | 0050 | 112 | 0070 |
| UTF-8 | 80 | 50 | 112 | 70 |
| Numeric character reference | P | P | p | p |
| EBCDIC family | 215 | D7 | 151 | 97 |
| ASCII 1 | 80 | 50 | 112 | 70 |
1 and all encodings based on ASCII, including the DOS, Windows, ISO-8859 and Macintosh families of encodings.
[edit] Other representations
[edit] See also
- Mind your Ps and Qs
- Pence or "penny," the English slang for which is p (eg. "20p" = 20 pence)
[edit] References
- ^ Advancing in the Bash Shell
- ^ "P" Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition (1989); Merriam-Webster's Third New International Dictionary of the English Language, Unabridged (1993); "pee," op. cit.
[edit] External links
Media related to P at Wikimedia Commons
The Wiktionary entry for P
The Wiktionary entry for p
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Letter P with diacritics
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