Pe (Persian letter)
Persian alphabet |
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ا ب پ ت ث ج چ ح خ د ذ ر ز ژ س ش ص ض ط ظ ع غ ف ق ک گ ل م ن و ه ی |
Perso-Arabic script |
Pe (پ) is a letter in the Perso-Arabic alphabet for [p].
It is used in Persian and Kurdish and other Iranian languages, Uyghur, Urdu, Pashto language, Sindhi, Kashmiri, Shina language, and Turkic languages (before the Latin and Cyrillic scripts were adopted but not in Arabic, which usually replace it with the letter bāʼ (ب). However, it is sometimes used in some Arabic dialects to transliterate foreign words or to write scientific words such as protein (بروتين or پروتين).
Position in word | Isolated | Final | Medial | Initial |
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Glyph form: (Help) |
پ | ـپ | ـپـ | پـ |
Character encodings
Preview | پ | |
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Unicode name | ARABIC LETTER PEH | |
Encodings | decimal | hex |
Unicode | 1662 | U+067E |
UTF-8 | 217 190 | D9 BE |
Numeric character reference | پ |
پ |
See also