P, or p, is the sixteenth letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is pee (pronounced ), plural pees.
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P is the sixteenth letter of the Latin alphabet and is used in English and many other languages around the world. It matters because it's a fundamental component of written communication, helping to form the words and sounds we use every day in reading and writing.
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- Grapheme.name
- P
- Grapheme.letter
- P p
- Grapheme.script
- Latin script
- Grapheme.type
- Alphabet
- Grapheme.typedesc
- ic and logographic
- Grapheme.language
- Latin language
- Grapheme.phonemes
- [][][()][][]
- Grapheme.unicode
- U+0050, U+0070
- Grapheme.alphanumber
- 16
- Grapheme.fam1
- D21
- Grapheme.fam2
- class=skin-invert-image|20px|Proto-sinaitic P'it
- Grapheme.fam3
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- Grapheme.fam4
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- English
- Other languages
- Other systems
- Other uses
- Related characters
- Ancestors, descendants and siblings
- Derived ligatures, abbreviations, signs and symbols
- Other representations
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P, or p, is the sixteenth letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is pee (pronounced ), plural pees.
==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 , a voiceless bilabial plosive. {| class="wikitable" |- style="background:#eee;"9997145563 !Egyptian !Proto-Sinaitic !Proto-Canaanitepʿit ! Phoenician Pe ! Western GreekPi ! Etruscan P ! LatinP |- style="text-align:center;" | | class=skin-invert-image|25px | class=skin-invert-image|25px | class=skin-invert-image|25px | class=skin-invert-image|25px | class=skin-invert-image|25px | class=skin-invert-image|x30px|Latin P |} thumb|180px|center|Late Renaissance or early [[Baroque design of a P, from 1627]]