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T

See also: Appendix:Variations of "t"

T U+0054, T
LATIN CAPITAL LETTER T
← S
[U+0053] 		Basic Latin U →
[U+0055]
Ｔ U+FF34, Ｔ
FULLWIDTH LATIN CAPITAL LETTER T
← Ｓ
[U+FF33] 		Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms Ｕ →
[U+FF35]

Translingual Edit

 
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Etymology Edit

From the Etruscan letter 𐌕 (t, “te”), from the Ancient Greek letter Τ (T, “tau”), derived from the Phoenician letter 𐤕‎ (t, “taw”), from the Egyptian hieroglyph 𓏴.

Letter Edit

T (lower case t)

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

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Symbol Edit

T

  1. tesla, the SI unit of magnetic flux density.
  2. tera-
  3. (genetics) IUPAC 1-letter abbreviation for thymine
  4. (biochemistry) IUPAC 1-letter abbreviation for threonine
  5. (mathematics) matrix transpose
  6. (chemistry) tritium
  7. (linguistics) A wildcard for a tone or stress level (the tonicity of a syllable)

Gallery Edit

  • Letter styles
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    Uppercase and lowercase versions of T, in normal and italic type

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    Uppercase and lowercase T in Fraktur

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    Uppercase and lowercase T in sans-serif and serif font

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Other representations of T:

English Edit

Etymology 1 Edit

Pronunciation Edit

  • (letter name): IPA(key): /tiː/
  • (phoneme): IPA(key): /t/
  • (main allophones): IPA(key): [tʰ], [t], [t̬], [ɾ], [ʔ]
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Letter Edit

T (upper case, lower case t, plural Ts or T's)

  1. The twentieth letter of the English alphabet, called tee and written in the Latin script.
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Number Edit

T (upper case, lower case t)

  1. The ordinal number twentieth, derived from this letter of the English alphabet, called tee and written in the Latin script.
Derived terms Edit

Etymology 2 Edit

Abbreviations.

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Adjective Edit

T

  1. (ratings) Teen.
  2. (finance) Taxable.
  3. American Library Association abbreviation of twentieth, a book size range (12.5-15 cm in height).
  4. Transgender (TG) or transsexual (TS) (sometimes used in contrast to cisgender M or F; compare NB).

Noun Edit

T (countable and uncountable, plural Ts)

  2. (informal) A T-shirt.
    Alternative form: tee
    • 2005, Kate Brian, Lucky T, page 8:
      "I'm telling you, every good thing that has happened to me is because of this lucky T." Carrie had an extensive list going of all the positive moments that occurred after she got the T-shirt. She wore the lucky T to varsity basketball tryouts […]
  3. Abbreviation of Tuesday.
  4. Abbreviation of Thursday.
  5. (music) Tenor.
  6. (automotive) The Ford Motor Company's Model T automobile.
  7. (rail transport, in multiple unit formations) Trailer car.
  8. (informal, with the) The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority, or MBTA; specifically, the subway or train.
    I'm going to take the T.
  9. (sports) Abbreviation of ties (statistic).
    Coordinate terms: W (“wins”), L (“losses”)
  10. (basketball) A technical foul.
  11. Testosterone.
    Coordinate term: E (“estrogen”)
  12. (medicine) A T wave.
    • 1999, Thomas M. Blake, Annotated Atlas of Electrocardiography: A Guide to Confident Interpretation, New York, NY: Springer Science+Business Media, →ISBN, page 63:
      The symmetry of the negative Ts in II, III, and avF (210) may have that significance, or it may mean coronary insufficiency in a patient with an old infarct, or may be a stable part of an old lesion.
  13. (immunology) A T cell.
    • 2020 May 2, “Leaving lockdown means understanding immune responses to the virus”, in The Economist‎[1]:
      Mind your Bs and Ts
      The other prong comes in the form of “T” lymphocytes (which mature in the thymus). These recognise and kill infected body cells.
  14. (construction) A T-beam.
  15. (nautical, historical) Abbreviation of temperance; marked in the ship's books when a sailor chose money instead of the daily rum ration.
    Coordinate term: G (“grog”)

Proper noun Edit

T

  1. (stock ticker symbol) AT&T.
  2. (informal, with the) The roughly T-shaped rural part of Pennsylvania, located between Philadelphia and Pittsburgh.
    Synonym: Pennsyltucky
    The candidate needs to win the T to take the state.

Prefix Edit

T

  1. (stenoscript) the prefix trans-.

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Afar Edit

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T

  1. The third letter in the Afar alphabet.

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Afrikaans Edit

Pronunciation Edit

  • (letter name): IPA(key): /tɪə/

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T (upper case, lower case t)

  1. The twentieth letter of the Afrikaans alphabet, written in the Latin script.

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Noun Edit

T (plural T's, diminutive T'tjie)

  1. T

Angami Edit

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T

  1. The twenty-second letter of the Angami alphabet, written in the Latin script.

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Azerbaijani Edit

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T upper case (lower case t)

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

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Basque Edit

Pronunciation Edit

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T (upper case, lower case t)

  1. The twenty-first letter of the Basque alphabet, called te and written in the Latin script.

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Central Franconian Edit

Etymology Edit

  • /t/ is from unshifted West Germanic *t (in tr, ft, st, ht and relicts); occasionally from *d, *þ through analogy (e.g. preterite suffix); from *þþ; in most of Moselle Franconian also from *dd.

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T

  1. A letter in the German-based alphabet of Central Franconian.
  2. A letter in the Dutch-based alphabet of Central Franconian.

Usage notes Edit

Doubling of T
  • In the German-based spelling, t is doubled after short vowels except in certain function words and when the letter is followed by another consonant within the word stem.
  • In the Dutch-based spelling, t is doubled after short vowels if the syllable were otherwise open.

Chinese Edit

Etymology 1 Edit

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Noun Edit

T

  1. (LGBT) butch lesbian
Antonyms Edit
  • P (“femme, lipstick lesbian”)

Etymology 2 Edit

Pronunciation 1 Edit

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T

  1. The twentieth letter of the Latin alphabet.

Pronunciation 2 Edit

Letter Edit

T

  1. The twentieth letter used in Pinyin.
Usage notes Edit
  • 《汉语拼音方案》 defines a standard pronunciation for each letter. However, these pronunciations are rarely used in education; another pronunciation is commonly used instead.
  • The pronunciation above are only used while referring to letters in Pinyin. They are not used in other context (such as English).

Chipewyan Edit

Pronunciation Edit

  1. IPA(key): /tʰ/

Letter Edit

T (lower case t)

  1. A letter of the Chipewyan alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Dutch Edit

Pronunciation Edit

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T (capital, lowercase t)

  1. The twentieth letter of the Dutch alphabet.

Elfdalian Edit

Alternative forms Edit

  • T, ᛐ (Dalecarlian runes)

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T (upper case T, lower case t)

  1. The twenty-second letter of the Elfdalian alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Esperanto Edit

Pronunciation Edit

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T (upper case, lower case t)

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

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Finnish Edit

Etymology Edit

The Finnish orthography using the Latin script was based on Swedish, German and Latin. No earlier script is known. See the Wikipedia article on Finnish for more information, and T for development of the glyph itself.

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T (upper case, lower case t)

  1. The twentieth letter of the Finnish alphabet, called tee and written in the Latin script.

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German Edit

Pronunciation Edit

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T (upper case, lower case t)

  1. The twentieth letter of the German alphabet.

Hungarian Edit

Pronunciation Edit

  • (phoneme): IPA(key): [ˈt]
  • (letter name): IPA(key): [ˈteː]

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T (upper case, lower case t)

  1. The thirty-second letter of the Hungarian alphabet, called té and written in the Latin script.

Declension Edit

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, front unrounded harmony)
singular plural
nominative T T-k
accusative T-t T-ket
dative T-nek T-knek
instrumental T-vel T-kkel
causal-final T-ért T-kért
translative T-vé T-kké
terminative T-ig T-kig
essive-formal T-ként T-kként
essive-modal — —
inessive T-ben T-kben
superessive T-n T-ken
adessive T-nél T-knél
illative T-be T-kbe
sublative T-re T-kre
allative T-hez T-khez
elative T-ből T-kből
delative T-ről T-kről
ablative T-től T-ktől
non-attributive
possessive - singular 		T-é T-ké
non-attributive
possessive - plural 		T-éi T-kéi
Possessive forms of T
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. T-m T-im
2nd person sing. T-d T-id
3rd person sing. T-je T-i
1st person plural T-nk T-ink
2nd person plural T-tek T-itek
3rd person plural T-jük T-ik

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Ido Edit

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T (lower case t)

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

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Irish Edit

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T (upper case, lower case t)

  1. The seventeenth letter of the Irish alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Derived terms Edit

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Italian Edit

 
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T f or m (invariable, upper case, lower case t)

  1. The eighteenth letter of the Italian alphabet, called ti and written in the Latin script.

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Kashubian Edit

Etymology Edit

The Kashubian orthography is based on the Latin alphabet. No earlier script is known. See the Kashubian alphabet article on Wikipedia for more, and T for development of the glyph itself.

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T (upper case, lower case t)

  1. The twenty-seventh letter of the Kashubian alphabet, written in the Latin script.

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Latvian Edit

 
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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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T

T (upper case, lower case t)

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

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Malay Edit

 
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Pronunciation Edit

  • (Name of letter) IPA(key): [ti]
  • (Phoneme, Syllable initial) IPA(key): [t]
  • (Phoneme, Syllable final) IPA(key): [t̚]

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T

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

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Nupe Edit

Pronunciation Edit

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T (upper case, lower case t)

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

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Polish Edit

Etymology Edit

The Polish orthography is based on the Latin alphabet. No earlier script is known. See the history of Polish orthography article on Wikipedia for more, and T for development of the glyph itself.

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T (upper case, lower case t)

  1. The twenty-sixth letter of the Polish alphabet, called te and written in the Latin script.

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Portuguese Edit

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T (upper case, lower case t)

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

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Noun Edit

T m (plural Ts)

  1. adaptor (device allowing more plugs at a socket)
    Synonyms: adaptador, benjamim

Romani Edit

Pronunciation Edit

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T (upper case, lower case t)

  1. (International Standard) The twenty-sixth letter of the Romani alphabet, written in the Latin script.
  2. (Pan-Vlax) The twenty-seventh letter of the Romani alphabet, written in the Latin script.

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Romanian Edit

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T (upper case, lower case t)

  1. The twenty-fourth letter of the Romanian alphabet, called te or tî and written in the Latin script.

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Saanich Edit

Pronunciation Edit

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T

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

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Scottish Gaelic Edit

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T (upper case, lower case t)

  1. The 17th letter of the Scottish Gaelic alphabet.

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Silesian Edit

Etymology Edit

The Silesian orthography is based on the Latin alphabet. No earlier script is known. See the Silesian language article on Wikipedia for more, and T for development of the glyph itself.

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T (upper case, lower case t)

  1. The twenty-eighth letter of the Silesian alphabet, written in the Latin script.

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Skolt Sami Edit

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T (lower case t)

  1. The thirtieth letter of the Skolt Sami alphabet, written in the Latin script.

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Slovene Edit

 
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T (capital, lowercase t)

  1. The 21st letter of the Slovene alphabet. Preceded by Š and followed by U.

Somali Edit

Pronunciation Edit

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T upper case (lower case t)

  1. The third letter of the Somali alphabet, called ta and written in the Latin script.

Usage notes Edit

  1. The third letter of the Somali alphabet, which follows Arabic abjad order. It is preceded by B and followed by J.

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Spanish Edit

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T (upper case, lower case t)

  1. the 21st letter of the Spanish alphabet

Tagalog Edit

Etymology Edit

From Spanish T. Each pronunciation has a different source:

  • Filipino alphabet pronunciation is influenced by English T.
  • Abecedario pronunciation is from Spanish T.
  • Abakada alphabet pronunciation is influenced by Baybayin character ᜆ (ta).

Pronunciation Edit

  • Hyphenation: T
  • (letter name, Filipino alphabet): IPA(key): /ti/, [tɪ]
  • (letter name, Abecedario): IPA(key): /ˈte/, [ˈtɛ]
  • (letter name, Abakada alphabet): IPA(key): /ta/, [tɐ]
  • (phoneme): IPA(key): /t/, [t]
  • Rhymes: -i, -e, -a

Letter Edit

T (upper case, lower case t, Baybayin spelling ᜆᜒ)

  1. The twenty-second letter of the Tagalog alphabet (Filipino alphabet), called ti and written in the Latin script.
  2. (historical) The twenty-third letter of the Tagalog alphabet (Abecedario), called te and written in the Latin script.

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Letter Edit

T (upper case, lower case t, Baybayin spelling ᜆ)

  1. The seventeenth letter of the Tagalog alphabet (Abakada alphabet), called ta and written in the Latin script.

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Turkish Edit

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T (upper case, lower case t)

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

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Vietnamese Edit

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T (upper case, lower case t)

  1. The twenty-fourth letter of the Vietnamese alphabet, called tê or tờ and written in the Latin script.

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Welsh Edit

Pronunciation Edit

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T (upper case, lower case t)

  1. The twenty-fifth letter of the Welsh alphabet, called bi and written in the Latin script. It is preceded by S and followed by Th.

Mutation Edit

Welsh mutation
radical soft nasal aspirate
tŷ dŷ nhŷ thŷ
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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Further reading Edit

  • R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “T”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies

Yoruba Edit

Pronunciation Edit

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T (upper case, lower case t)

  1. The twenty-second letter of the Yoruba alphabet, called tí and written in the Latin script.

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Zulu Edit

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T (upper case, lower case t)

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

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