P

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LetterP.svg
Unicode name LATIN CAPITAL LETTER P
Unicode block Basic Latin
Codepoint U+0050
 O ← Basic Latin → Q 
See also: p and Appendix:Variations of "p"

Translingual[edit]

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Letter[edit]

P upper case (lower case p)

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

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Symbol[edit]

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
  5. (physics) power
  6. (computer science) class of problems solvable in polynomial time

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Other representations of P:

  • Letter styles

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

  • Uppercase and lowercase P in Fraktur

English[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

Letter[edit]

P (upper case, lower case p, plural Ps or P's)

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

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[edit]

Abbreviations.

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

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[edit]

P

  1. (computing theory) The set of all problems that are solvable in polynomial time by a deterministic Turing machine
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American Sign Language[edit]

Letter[edit]

P (Stokoe P)

  1. The letter P

Azeri[edit]

Letter[edit]

P upper case (lower case p)

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

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Dutch[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Letter[edit]

P (capital, lowercase p)

  1. The sixteenth letter of the Dutch alphabet.

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  • Previous letter: O
  • Next letter: Q

Esperanto[edit]

Letter[edit]

P (upper case, lower case p)

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

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Finnish[edit]

Letter[edit]

P (upper case, lower case p)

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

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German[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Letter[edit]

P (upper case, lower case p)

  1. The sixteenth letter of the German alphabet.

German Sign Language[edit]

Etymology[edit]

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

Production[edit]

This one-handed GSL sign is produced as follows:

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

Letter[edit]

P

  1. the letter P

Italian[edit]

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Pronunciation[edit]

Letter[edit]

P m, f (invariable, lower case p)

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

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Latvian[edit]

Latvian Wikipedia has an article on:

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Etymology[edit]

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[edit]

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Letter[edit]

P

P (upper case, lower case p)

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

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Malay[edit]

Malay Wikipedia has an article on:

Wikipedia ms

Pronunciation[edit]

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

Letter[edit]

P

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

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Romanian[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Letter[edit]

P (capital, lowercase p)

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

Saanich[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Letter[edit]

P

  1. The twenty-fourth letter of the Saanich alphabet, written in the Latin script.

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Skolt Sami[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Letter[edit]

P (lower case p)

  1. The twenty-sixth letter of the Skolt Sami alphabet, written in the Latin script.

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Slovene[edit]

Slovene Wikipedia has an article on:

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Pronunciation[edit]

Letter[edit]

P (capital, lowercase p)

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

Spanish[edit]

Letter[edit]

P (upper case, lower case p)

  1. The 17th letter of the Spanish alphabet.

Turkish[edit]

Letter[edit]

P (upper case, lower case p)

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

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Vietnamese[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

  • (Hà Nội) IPA (key): /pe˧˧/, /ˀɓe˧˧ fəːɰ˧˩/, /pəːɰ˨˩/
  • (Huế) IPA (key): /pej˧˧/, /ˀɓej˧˧ fəːɰ˧˩/, /pəːɰ˧˧/
  • (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA (key): /pej˧˥/, /ˀɓej˧˥ fəːɰ˨˦/, /pəːɰ˨˩/
  • Phonetic: pê, bê phở, pờ

Letter[edit]

P (upper case, lower case p)

  1. The twentieth letter of the Vietnamese alphabet, called pê, bê phở or pờ and written in the Latin script.

See also[edit]

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