P 23342 225718586 2008-07-15T01:49:13Z TXiKiBoT 3171782 robot Adding: [[lv:P]] {{otherusesof}} {{dablink|Due to [[Wikipedia:Naming conventions (technical restrictions)|technical restrictions]], ":P" and "P#" redirect here. For ":P", see [[List of common emoticons#Common examples]]. For "P#" the programming language, see [[P Sharp]].}} {{wiktionarypar2|P|p}} {{Latin alphabet navbox|uc=P|lc=p}} '''P''' is the sixteenth letter of the modern [[Latin alphabet]]. Its name in [[English language|English]] is spelled '''pee''' or occasionally '''pe''' ({{pronEng|piː}}).<ref>"P" ''Oxford English Dictionary,'' 2nd edition (1989); ''Merriam-Webster's Third New International Dictionary of the English Language, Unabridged'' (1993); "pee," op. cit.</ref> ==History== The Semitic Pê (mouth), as well as the Greek Π or π ([[Pi (letter)|Pi]]), and the Etruscan and Latin letters that developed from the former alphabet, all symbolized {{IPA|/p/}}, a [[voiceless bilabial plosive]]. ==Usage== In [[English language|English]] and most other European languages, P is a [[voiceless bilabial plosive]]. Both initial and final Ps can be combined with many other discrete [[consonant]]s in English words. A common example of [[Assimilation (linguistics)|assimilation]] is the tendency of prefixes ending in N to assume an M sound before Ps (such as "in" + "pulse" → "impulse" &mdash; see also [[List of Latin words with English derivatives]]). A common digraph in English is "ph", which represents the [[voiceless labiodental fricative]] {{IPA|/f/}}, and can be used to transliterate [[Phi]] (φ) in loanwords from [[Greek language|Greek]]. In German, the digraph "pf" is common, representing a labial [[affricate]] of {{IPA|/pf/}}. Those who speak Arabic are usually unaccustomed to pronouncing {{IPA|/p/}}; they pronounce it as {{IPA|/b/}} or {{IPA|/v/}} instead. ==Codes for computing== {{Letter |NATO=Papa |Morse=·––· |Character=P |Braille=⠏ }} In [[Unicode]], the [[majuscule|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 numeral system|binary]], 01010000 and 01110000, respectively. The [[EBCDIC]] code for capital "P" is 215 and for lowercase "p" is 151. The [[numeric character reference]]s in [[HTML]] and [[XML]] are "<tt>&amp;#80;</tt>" and "<tt>&amp;#112;</tt>" for upper and lower case, respectively. ==See also== {{Commons|P}} *[[thorn (letter)|Þ or þ]] *[[Sound recording copyright symbol|℗ or (P)]] *[[Pe (Cyrillic)|П, п - Pe (Cyrillic)]] *[[Er (Cyrillic)|Р, р - Er (Cyrillic)]] *[[Pi (letter)|Π, π - Pi (Greek)]] {{Latin alphabet}} ==References== <references /> [[Category:Latin letters]] [[af:P]] [[als:P]] [[ar:P]] [[arc:P]] [[ast:P]] [[az:P]] [[bs:P]] [[br:P (lizherenn)]] [[ca:P]] [[cs:P]] [[co:P]] [[cy:P]] [[da:P]] [[de:P]] [[et:P]] [[el:P]] [[es:P]] [[eo:P]] [[eu:P]] [[fa:P]] [[fr:P (lettre)]] [[fur:P]] [[gan:P]] [[gd:P]] [[gl:P]] [[ko:P]] [[hr:P]] [[ilo:P]] [[is:P]] [[it:P]] [[he:P]] [[ka:P]] [[kw:P]] [[sw:P]] [[ht:P]] [[la:P]] [[lv:P]] [[lt:P]] [[hu:P]] [[mzn:P]] [[nah:P]] [[nl:P (letter)]] [[ja:P]] [[no:P]] [[nn:P]] [[nrm:P]] [[uz:P (harf)]] [[pl:P]] [[pt:P]] [[ro:P]] [[qu:P]] [[ru:P (латиница)]] [[se:P]] [[scn:P]] [[simple:P]] [[sk:P]] [[sl:P]] [[sr:P (слово латинице)]] [[fi:P]] [[sv:P]] [[tl:P]] [[th:P]] [[vi:P]] [[tr:P]] [[uk:P (латиниця)]] [[vo:P]] [[yo:P]] [[zh-yue:P]] [[bat-smg:P]] [[zh:P]]