P

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

P U+0050, P LATIN CAPITAL LETTER P ← O [U+004F] Basic Latin Q → [U+0051]

Ｐ U+FF30, Ｐ FULLWIDTH LATIN CAPITAL LETTER P ← Ｏ [U+FF2F] Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms Ｑ → [U+FF31]

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Translingual

Letter

P (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  Sſs  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

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

Gallery

• Letter styles
• 

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

• 

  Uppercase and lowercase P in Fraktur

See also

Other representations of P:

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English

Etymology 1

Letter

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.

See also

• (Latin-script letters) letter; A a, B b, C c, D d, E e, F f, G g, H h, I i, J j, K k, L l, M m, N n, O o, P p, Q q, R r, S s, T t, U u, V v, W w, X x, Y y, Z z

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^(key): /pʰiː/
• Rhymes: -iː

• Audio (US)

  (file)

Noun

P (plural Ps)

1. park
2. phone
3. pager
4. passenger
5. Philippine peso
6. (chess) Pawn.
7. (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.

8. (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

(transliteration needed) (Stokoe P)

1. The letter P

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Azerbaijani

Letter

P upper case (lower case p)

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

See also

• (Latin-script letters) hərf; A a, B b, C c, Ç ç, D d, E e, Ə ə, F f, G g, Ğ ğ, H h, X x, I ı, İ i, J j, K k, Q q, L l, M m, N n, O o, Ö ö, P p, R r, S s, Ş ş, T t, U u, Ü ü, V v, Y y, Z z

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Chinese

Etymology

Derived from English photoshop.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): pī, pì (pi¹, pi⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄆㄧ, ㄆㄧˋ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: pī
    • Zhuyin: ㄆㄧ
    • Wade–Giles: p'ih¹
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: pi
    • IPA ^(key): /pʰi⁵⁵/
      
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: pì
    • Zhuyin: ㄆㄧˋ
    • Wade–Giles: p'ih⁴
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: pih
    • IPA ^(key): /pʰi⁵¹/

Verb

P

1. (Internet) to photoshop

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Dutch

Pronunciation

• (letter name): IPA^(key): /peː/

• Audio

  (file)

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; A a, B b, C c, Ĉ ĉ, D d, E e, F f, G g, Ĝ ĝ, H h, Ĥ ĥ, I i, J j, Ĵ ĵ, K k, L l, M m, N n, O o, P p, R r, S s, Ŝ ŝ, T t, U u, Ŭ ŭ, V v, Z z

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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) kirjain; A a, B b, C c, D d, E e, F f, G g, H h, I i, J j, K k, L l, M m, N n, O o, P p, Q q, R r, S s (Š š), T t, U u, V v (W w), X x, Y y, Z z (Ž ž), Å å, Ä ä, Ö ö

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German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /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

(transliteration needed)

1. the letter P

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Ido

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p/

Letter

P (lower case p)

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

See also

• (Latin-script letters) litero; A a, B b, C c, D d, E e, F f, G g, H h, I i, J j, K k, L l, M m, N n, O o, P p, Q q, R r, S s, T t, U u, V v, W w, X x, Y y, Z z

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Italian

Pronunciation

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

Letter

P m, 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; A a (À à), B b, C c, D d, E e (É é, È è), F f, G g, H h, I i (Í í, Ì ì, Πî, J j, K k), L l, M m, N n, O o (Ó ó, Ò ò), P p, Q q, R r, S s, T t, U u (Ú ú, Ù ù), V v (W w, X x, Y y), Z z
• Italian alphabet on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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Japanese

Etymology

From English producer. The VOCALOID sense may have arisen from an extension of the concept of producers in THE IDOLM@STER; both THE IDOLM@STER and VOCALOID were/are popular topics on the Niconico video sharing website.

Suffix

P (katakana ピー, rōmaji -pī)

1. (entertainment, music) Initialism of プロデューサー (purodyūsā, “producer”).
2. (more specifically) Musician who produces music featuring VOCALOID.

   ささくれP (ピー)

   sasakure-pī

   sasakureP

3. (typography, especially in typeface names) Initialism of プロポーショナル (purpōshonaru, “proportional”).

   MS (エムエス)P (ピー)ゴシック

   Emuesu Pī-goshikku

   MS PGothic

Derived terms

• ボカロP (ピー) (bokaro-pī)

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Latvian

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^(key): [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

Pronunciation

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

Letter

P

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

See also

• (Latin-script letters) A a, B b, C c, D d, E e, F f, G g, H h, I i, J j, K k, L l, M m, N n, O o, P p, Q q, R r, S s, T t, U u, V v, W w, X x, Y y, Z z

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Portuguese

Letter

P (upper case, lower case p)

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

See also

• (Latin-script letters) letra; A a (Á á, À à,  â, àã), B b, C c (Ç ç), D d, E e (É é, Ê ê), F f, G g, H h, I i (Í í), J j, K k, L l, M m, N n, O o (Ó ó, Ô ô, Õ õ), P p, Q q, R r, S s, T t, U u (Ú ú), V v, W w, X x, Y y, Z z

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Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pe/

Letter

P (upper case, lower case p)

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

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Saanich

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p/

Letter

P

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

See also

• (Latin-script letters) A, Á, Ⱥ, B, C, Ć, Ȼ, D, E, H, I, Í, J, K, Ꝁ, Ꝃ, ₭, Ḵ, Ḱ, L, Ƚ, M, N, Ṉ, O, P, Q, S, Ś, T, Ⱦ, Ṯ, Ŧ, U, W, W̲, X, X̲, Y, Z, s, ,

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Skolt Sami

Pronunciation

• (phoneme) IPA^(key): /p/

Letter

P (lower case p)

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

See also

• (Latin-script letters) bukva; A a,  â, B b, C c, Č č, Ʒ ʒ, Ǯ ǯ, D d, Đ đ, E e, F f, G g, Ǧ ǧ, Ǥ ǥ, H h, I i, J j, K k, Ǩ ǩ, L l, M m, N n, Ŋ ŋ, O o, Õ õ, P p, R r, S s, Š š, T t, U u, V v, Z z, Ž ž, Å å, Ä ä, ʹ

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Slovene

Pronunciation

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; A a, B b, C c, Ç ç, D d, E e, F f, G g, Ğ ğ, H h, I ı, İ i, J j, K k, L l, M m, N n, O o, Ö ö, P p, R r, S s, Ş ş, T t, U u, Ü ü, V v, Y y, Z z

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Vietnamese

Pronunciation

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [pe˧˧], [ʔɓe˧˧ fəː˧˩], [pəː˨˩]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [pej˧˧], [ʔɓej˧˧ fəː˧˨], [pəː˦˩]
• (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [pej˧˧], [ʔɓej˧˧ fəː˨˩˦], [pəː˨˩]
• Phonetic: pê, bê phở, pờ

Letter

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

• (Quốc ngữ letters) chữ; A a (À à, Ả ả, àã, Á á, Ạ ạ), Ă ă (Ằ ằ, Ẳ ẳ, Ẵ ẵ, Ắ ắ, Ặ ặ),  â (Ầ ầ, Ẩ ẩ, Ẫ ẫ, Ấ ấ, Ậ ậ), B b, C c (Ch ch), D d, Đ đ, E e (È è, Ẻ ẻ, Ẽ ẽ, É é, Ẹ ẹ), Ê ê (Ề ề, Ể ể, Ễ ễ, Ế ế, Ệ ệ), G g (Gh gh, Gi gi), H h, I i (Ì ì, Ỉ ỉ, Ĩ ĩ, Í í, Ị ị), K k (Kh kh), L l, M m, N n (Ng ng, Ngh ngh, Nh nh), O o (Ò ò, Ỏ ỏ, Õ õ, Ó ó, Ọ ọ), Ô ô (Ồ ồ, Ổ ổ, Ỗ ỗ, Ố ố, Ộ ộ), Ơ ơ (Ờ ờ, Ở ở, Ỡ ỡ, Ớ ớ, Ợ ợ), P p (Ph ph), Q q (Qu qu), R r, S s, T t (Th th, Tr tr), U u (Ù ù, Ủ ủ, Ũ ũ, Ú ú, Ụ ụ), Ư ư (Ừ ừ, Ử ử, Ữ ữ, Ứ ứ, Ự ự), V v, X x, Y y (Ỳ ỳ, Ỷ ỷ, Ỹ ỹ, Ý ý, Ỵ ỵ)

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Zulu

Letter

P (upper case, lower case p)

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

See also

• (Latin-script letters) A a, B b, C c, D d, E e, F f, G g, H h, I i, J j, K k, L l, M m, N n, O o, P p, Q q, R r, S s, T t, U u, V v, W w, X x, Y y, Z z