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

• 

  Uppercase and lowercase P in Fraktur

---

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 ^[edit]

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/, SAMPA: /pi:/
• Rhymes: -iː

• Audio (US)

  (file)

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.

   • 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

---

American Sign Language

Letter

(Stokoe P)

1. The letter P

---

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 ^[edit]

---

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

---

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 ^[edit]

---

German

Pronunciation

• IPA: /peː/

Letter

P (upper case, lower case p)

1. The sixteenth letter of the German alphabet.

---

Italian

Wikipedia ^it

Pronunciation

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

Letter

P m. and f. inv. (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 ^[edit]
• Italian alphabet on Wikipedia.Wikipedia:Italian alphabet

---

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.

---

Slovene

Wikipedia ^sl

Letter

P (capital, lowercase p)

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

---

Spanish

Letter

P (upper case, lower case p)

1. The 17th letter of the Spanish alphabet.

---

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 ^[edit]