P

For other uses of "P", see "P" (disambiguation).

Due to technical restrictions, ":P" and "P#" redirect here. For ":P", see List of common emoticons#Common examples. For "P#", the programming language, see P Sharp.

P is the sixteenth letter of the modern Latin alphabet. Its name in English (Template:Pron-en) is spelled pee.

History

The Semitic Pê (mouth), as well as the Greek Π or π (Pi), and the Etruscan and Latin letters that developed from the former alphabet, all symbolized /p/, a voiceless bilabial plosive.

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/.

Those who speak Arabic are usually unaccustomed to pronouncing /p/; they pronounce it as /b/.

Codes for computing

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In Unicode, the capital "P" is codepoint U+0050 and the lower case "p" is U+0070.

The ASCII code for capital "P" is 80 and for lowercase "p" is 112; or, in binary, 01010000 and 01110000, respectively.

The EBCDIC code for capital "P" is 215 and for lowercase "p" is 151.

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See also

• Þ or þ
• ℗ or (P)
• П, п - Pe (Cyrillic)

• Р, р - Er (Cyrillic)
• Π, π - Pi (Greek)
• פ, ף - Pe (Hebrew)