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'''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" — 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>&#80;</tt>" and "<tt>&#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==
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[[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]]