P

Due to technical restrictions, ":P" and "P#" redirect here.

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.

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

Basic Latin alphabet
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

P ( /ˈpiː/; named pee)^[2] is the sixteenth letter of the basic modern Latin alphabet.

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/.

History

Phoenician P	Archaic Greek Pi	Greek Pi	Etruscan P	Latin P

Related letters and other similar characters

The Latin letter P represrents 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 hletter 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

Computing codes

character	P		p
Unicode name	LATIN CAPITAL LETTER P		LATIN SMALL LETTER P
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.

Other representations

NATO phonetic	Morse code
Papa	·––·

Signal flag	Flag semaphore	Braille

See also

• Mind your Ps and Qs

References

1. ^ Advancing in the Bash Shell
2. ^ "P" Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition (1989); Merriam-Webster's Third New International Dictionary of the English Language, Unabridged (1993); "pee," op. cit.

External links

• Media related to P at Wikimedia Commons
• The Wiktionary definition of P
• The Wiktionary definition of p

The ISO basic Latin alphabetv · d · e
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
Letter P with diacritics
Ṕṕ	Ṗṗ	Ᵽᵽ	Ƥƥ	P̃p̃	ᵱ	ᶈ
Related
History Palaeography Derivations Diacritics Punctuation Numerals Unicode List of letters ISO/IEC 646