p

1. The 16th letter of the modern English alphabet.
2. Any of the speech sounds represented by the letter p.
3. The 16th in a series.
4. Something shaped like the letter P.
5. P A hypothesized documentary source of certain portions of the Pentateuch that have a formal style, contain genealogical lists and descriptions of rituals, and use the Tetragrammaton to refer to God.

The symbol for momentum (sense 1).

(1) (PicoSecond) See space/time.

(2) (PS) See PostScript.

(3) See power supply.

(4) (PS) (Personal Services) An earlier term for IBM office automation software for PCs, minis and mainframes, which included word processing, electronic mail and library services.

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The sixteenth letter of the modern English alphabet is represented by peith [Irish, tree or bush with edible berries; dwarf elder (?); gooseberry (?)] in the ogham alphabet of early Ireland. Although thirteenth letter of the early Irish alphabet, P did not exist in the earlier ogham and entered the language through loanwords from Latin (through British), Romance, and Scandinavian sources.

Professional Association. See professional corporation.

Symbol for (1) the short arm of a chromosome; or (2) the frequency of the more common allele of a pair; (3) pico-.

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

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

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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 is the sixteenth letter of the basic modern Latin alphabet. Its name in English (pronounced /piː/) is spelled pee.^[1]

Contents 1 History 2 Usage 3 Codes for computing 4 See also 5 References

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/.

Arabic speakers are usually unaccustomed to pronouncing /p/; they pronounce it as /b/.

Codes for computing

Alternative representations of P

NATO phonetic	Morse code
Papa	·––·

Signal flag	Flag semaphore	Braille

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.

The numeric character references in HTML and XML are "P" and "p" for upper and lower case, respectively.

See also

Þ or þ ℗ or (P) П, п - Pe (Cyrillic)

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

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References

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

The Basic modern 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
Letter P with diacritics ṔṕṖṗⱣᵽƤƥP̃p̃ᵱᶈ Two-letter combinations Pa Pb Pc Pd Pe Pf Pg Ph Pi Pj Pk Pl Pm Pn Po Pp Pq Pr Ps Pt Pu Pv Pw Px Py Pz PA PB PC PD PE PF PG PH PI PJ PK PL PM PN PO PP PQ PR PS PT PU PV PW PX PY PZ Letter-digit & Digit-letter combinations     P0 P1 P2 P3 P4 P5 P6 P7 P8 P9     0P 1P 2P 3P 4P 5P 6P 7P 8P 9P     history • palaeography • derivations • diacritics • punctuation • numerals • Unicode • list of letters • ISO/IEC 646

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Dansk (Danish)
1.
n. - bogstavet P

2.
abbr. - page (side), para-, penny, piano, proton
symb. - pres, sandsynlighed, fremdrift

1.
n. - bogstavet P

2.
abbr. - antal spillede spil, automatisk gearskifteindstilling, parkering, poise, Portugal, navnebeskyttet, paritet, pawn; bonde i skak, Peter, lille, pres, første klasse
symb. - fosfor

Nederlands (Dutch)
P (fosfor), p (muziek), pagina, parkeren, pion, poise (natuurkunde), druk, penny, per, pico- (biljoenste deel), pint

Français (French)
1.
n. - p (seizième lettre de l'alphabet)

2.
abbr. - page, (Chim) para- (paradinitrobenzène), (GB) penny/pence, (Mus) pianissimo, (Phys) proton
symb. - (Phys) pression, (Stat) probabilité, (Phys) force d'impulsion

1.
n. - P (lettre)

2.
abbr. - (Sport) résultats des jeux, (Aut) stationnement (boîte de vitesse automatique), (Aut) stationnement (panneaux de signalisation), (Phys) poise, plaque d'immatriculation internationale du Portugal, de propriété, (Comm) de marque déposée, génération parentale, (Fin) parité, gage, (Relig) Saint-Pierre, menue (une personne), (Phys) pression, (Aviat) première classe
symb. - (Chim) phosphore

Deutsch (German)
1.
n. - p

2.
abbr. - (Schach) Bauer, Seite, Penny, Pence, (Mus.) piano, (Phys.) Pico-, Parkplatz
symb. - (Chem.) Phosphor

1.
n. - P

2.
abbr. - (Schach) Bauer, Seite, Penny, Pence, (Mus.) piano, (Phys.) Pico-, Parkplatz
symb. - (Chem.) Phosphor

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - το δέκατο έκτο γράμμα του αγγλικού αλφαβήτου
symb. - φώσφορος
abbr. - στάθμευση, πένα, πένες, σελίδα

Italiano (Italian)
P, nuovo penny, parcheggio, pedina, fosforo

Português (Portuguese)
n. - fósforo (m) (Quím.)
symb. - P (Quím.)
abbr. - Papa (m), Príncipe (m)

Русский (Russian)
парковка, пешка, фосфор, полиция, президент, 16-я буква англ. алфавита

Español (Spanish)
1.
n. - letra p

2.
abbr. - página, para-, penique, (Mús.) piano (suavemente), protón
symb. - (Fís.) presión, probabilidad, (Fís.) momento

1.
n. - decimosexta letra del alfabeto inglés

2.
abbr. - estacionamiento, aparcamiento, Poise (unidad de viscosidad), Portugal, generación parental, paridad, (Biblia) Pedro, Presión, Primera Clase, cantidad de partidas jugadas (en tablas de resultados deportivos), aparcar (en caja de cambios automática), pequeño, peón (de ajedrez)
symb. - fósforo

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - P, p
symb. - fosfor
abbr. - parking, pawn (i schack), pedestrian (crossing), penny, piano (mus.)

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
停车场, 葡萄牙, 本堂牧师, 比索, 总统, 会长

1. 英语字母的第16字

2. 人员

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
abbr. - 停車場, 葡萄牙, 本堂牧師, 披索, 總統, 會長

1.
n. - 英語字母的第16字

2.
abbr. - 人員

한국어 (Korean)
1.
n. - 알파벳 'P'

2.
abbr. - page(쪽), penny(페니), piano(피아노), proton(양자)
symb. - pressure(압력), pityrobabil(가능성), momentum(운동량)

1.
n. - 알파벳 '피', P자 모양

2.
abbr. - parking(주차), parity(동등), parental(아버지다운), peter(소멸하다)
symb. - 인, 인황성 물질

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - ピー, P字形のもの

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) بي الحرف الأبجدي السادس, عشر (علامه) عنصر الفوسفور (اختصار) مختصر : درجه ناجحه, بندق شطرنج, بروتستانتي, درجه ضعيفه‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮האות P‬
abbr. - ‮עמוד, פני (מטבע), פסנתר, פרוטון, קשור לאטומי פחמן (כימיה)‬
symb. - ‮לחץ, הסתברות, תנופה (פיסיקה)‬
n. - ‮האות P‬
abbr. - ‮פני (מטבע), לחץ, שוויון, רגלי (שחמט), עמ', פטרוס (הברית החדשה), דור ההורים, פויז (יחידת-מידה לצמיגות), פטנט, קטנה, מספר המשחקים (בטבלות של ליגות ספורט)‬
symb. - ‮חניה, שטח חניה, דואר, זרחן (יסוד), מחלקה ראשונה (במטוס), סימון בינלאומי למכונית הרשומה בפורטוגל, חנה (סימון על מוט מהלכים אוט‬

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