P

Unicode name	LATIN CAPITAL LETTER P
Codepoint	U+0050
O ← Basic Latin → Q

See also p, and Appendix:Variations of "p"

Translingual

Wikipedia

Letter

P upper case (lower case p)

1. The sixteenth letter of the basic modern Latin alphabet.

See also

• (Latin script):  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
• (Variations of letter P):  Ṕṕ  Ṗṗ  Ᵽᵽ  Ƥƥ  P̃p̃  ᵱ  ᶈ  ᴘ  Ｐｐ  ȹ

Symbol

P

1. (chemistry) symbol for phosphorus
2. (metrology) symbol for peta-
3. (biochemistry) IUPAC 1-letter abbreviation for proline
4. (mathematics) probability

   P(A) is the probability of A occurring

See also

Other representations of P:

• Letter styles
• 

  Capital and lowercase versions of P, in normal and italic type

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  Uppercase and lowercase P in Fraktur

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English

Etymology 1

Letter

P uppercase (lowercase p)

1. The sixteenth letter of the English alphabet, called pee and written in the Latin script.

See also

• (Latin script letters) letter; 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

Number

P upper case (lower case p)

1. The ordinal number sixteenth, derived from this letter of the English alphabet, called pee and written in the Latin script.

Etymology 2

Abbreviations.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /pʰiː/, X-SAMPA: /pi:/
• Rhymes: -iː

• Audio (US)

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Noun

P (plural Ps)

1. park
2. phone
3. pager
4. passenger
5. (chess) Pawn.
6. (slang, chiefly US) A "pure" form of an illegal drug, especially heroin.
   • 2009, Dr Kerry Spackman, The Winner's Bible:

     P directly targets the dopamine pathways in your brain and as a result goes straight to your pleasure/reward module, which makes it an incredibly hard drug to break free from.

7. (slang, New Zealand) methamphetamine
   • 2011, New Zealand Herald, 6 May 2011:

     Almost 70kg of pre-cursor drugs that could be used to manufacture $20 million of P have been seized by police and customs officers.

Proper noun

P

1. (computing theory) The set of all problems that are solvable in polynomial time by a deterministic Turing machine

Related terms

• NP

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American Sign Language

Letter

(Stokoe P)

1. The letter P

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Azeri

Letter

P upper case (lower case p)

1. The twenty-third letter of the Azeri alphabet, written in the Latin script.

See also

• (Latin script letters) hərf; Aa, Bb, Cc, Çç, Dd, Ee, Əə, Ff, Gg, Ğğ, Hh, Xx, Iı, İi, Jj, Kk, Qq, Ll, Mm, Nn, Oo, Öö, Pp, Rr, Ss, Şş, Tt, Uu, Üü, Vv, Yy, Zz

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Dutch

Pronunciation

• (letter name): IPA: /peː/

Letter

P (capital, lowercase p)

1. The sixteenth letter of the Dutch alphabet.

See also

• Previous letter: O
• Next letter: Q

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Esperanto

Letter

P upper case (lower case p)

1. The twentieth letter of the Esperanto alphabet, called po and written in the Latin script.

See also

• (Latin script letters) litero; Aa, Bb, Cc, Ĉĉ, Dd, Ee, Ff, Gg, Ĝĝ, Hh, Ĥĥ, Ii, Jj, Ĵĵ, Kk, Ll, Mm, Nn, Oo, Pp, Rr, Ss, Ŝŝ, Tt, Uu, Ŭŭ, Vv, Zz

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Finnish

Letter

P upper case (lower case p)

1. The sixteenth letter of the Finnish alphabet, called pee and written in the Latin script.

See also

• (Latin script letters) letter; Aa, Bb, Cc, Dd, Ee, Ff, Gg, Hh, Ii, Jj, Kk, Ll, Mm, Nn, Oo, Pp, Qq, Rr, Ss, Šš, Tt, Uu, Vv, Ww, Xx, Yy, Zz, Žž, Åå, Ää, Öö

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German

Pronunciation

• IPA: /peː/

Letter

P (upper case, lower case p)

1. The sixteenth letter of the German alphabet.

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German Sign Language

Etymology

Related to the French Sign Language sign for "P".

Production

This one-handed GSL sign is produced as follows:

• Posture the dominant hand in the “P” shape.

Letter

1. the letter P

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Italian

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Pronunciation

• (name of letter) IPA: /pi/
• (phoneme) IPA: /p/

Letter

P m and f (invariable, lower case p)

1. The fourteenth letter of the Italian alphabet, called pi and written in the Latin script.

See also

• (Latin script letters) lettera; 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
• Italian alphabet on Wikipedia.Wikipedia:Italian alphabet

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Latvian

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Etymology

Proposed in 1908 as part of the new Latvian spelling by the scientific commission headed by K. Mīlenbahs, which was accepted and began to be taught in schools in 1909. Prior to that, Latvian had been written in German Fraktur, and sporadically in Cyrillic.

Pronunciation

• IPA: [p]

Letter

P

P upper case (lower case p)

1. The twenty-fourth letter of the Latvian alphabet, called pē and written in the Latin script.

See also

• Letters of the Latvian alphabet:

  burti: Aa, Āā, Bb, Cc, Čč, Dd, Ee, Ēē, Ff, Gg, Ģģ, Hh, Ii, Īī, Jj, Kk, Ķķ, Ll, Ļļ, Mm, Nn, Ņņ, Oo, Pp, Rr, Ss, Šš, Tt, Uu, Ūū, Vv, Zz, Žž

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Malay

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Pronunciation

• (Name of letter) IPA: [pi]
• (Phoneme, Syllable initial) IPA: [p]
• (Phoneme, Syllable final) IPA: [p̚]

Letter

P

1. The sixteenth letter of the Malay alphabet, written in the Latin script.

See also

• (Latin script letters) 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

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Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA: /pe/

Letter

P (capital, lowercase p)

1. The nineteenth letter of the Romanian alphabet representing the phoneme /p/. Preceded by O and followed by R.

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Slovene

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Letter

P (capital, lowercase p)

1. The 17th letter of the Slovene alphabet. Preceded by O and followed by R.

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Spanish

Letter

P (upper case, lower case p)

1. The 17th letter of the Spanish alphabet.

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Turkish

Letter

P upper case (lower case p)

1. The twentieth letter of the Turkish alphabet, called pe and written in the Latin script.

See also

• (Latin script letters) harf; Aa, Bb, Cc, Çç, Dd, Ee, Ff, Gg, Ğğ, Hh, Iı, İi, Jj, Kk, Ll, Mm, Nn, Oo, Öö, Pp, Rr, Ss, Şş, Tt, Uu, Üü, Vv, Yy, Zz