T

Not to be confused with ㅜ.

This article is about the letter. For other uses, see T (disambiguation).

Basic Latin alphabet
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

T ( /ˈtiː/; named tee)^[1] is the 20th letter in the basic modern Latin alphabet. It is the most commonly used consonant and the second most common letter in the English language.^[2]

History

Phoenician taw	Etruscan T	Greek Tau

Taw was the last letter of the Western Semitic and Hebrew alphabets. The sound value of Semitic Taw, Greek alphabet Tαυ (Tau), Old Italic and Latin T has remained fairly constant, representing [t] in each of these; and it has also kept its original basic shape in all of these alphabets.

Usage

In English, ‹t› often denotes the voiceless alveolar plosive (International Phonetic Alphabet and X-SAMPA: /t/), as in tea, tee, or "ties".

Related letters and other similar characters

• Τ τ : Greek letter Tau
• Т т : Cyrillic letter Te

Computing codes

character	T		t
Unicode name	LATIN CAPITAL LETTER T		LATIN SMALL LETTER T
character encoding	decimal	hex	decimal	hex
Unicode	84	0054	116	0074
UTF-8	84	54	116	74
Numeric character reference	T	T	t	t
EBCDIC family	227	E3	163	A3
ASCII 1	84	54	116	74

¹ and all encodings based on ASCII, including the DOS, Windows, ISO-8859 and Macintosh families of encodings.

Other representations

NATO phonetic	Morse code
Tango	–

Signal flag	Flag semaphore	Braille

References

1. ^ "T" Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition (1989); Merriam-Webster's Third New International Dictionary of the English Language, Unabridged (1993); "tee," op. cit.
2. ^ Lewand, Robert. "Relative Frequencies of Letters in General English Plain text". Cryptographical Mathematics. Central College. http://pages.central.edu/emp/LintonT/classes/spring01/cryptography/letterfreq.html. Retrieved 2008-06-25. 

External links

• Media related to T at Wikimedia Commons
• The Wiktionary definition of T
• The Wiktionary definition of t

The ISO basic Latin alphabetv · d · e
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
Letter T with diacritics
Ťť	Ṫṫ	Ţţ	Ṭṭ	Țț	Ṱṱ	Ṯṯ	Ŧŧ	Ⱦⱦ	Ƭƭ	Ʈʈ	T̈ẗ	ᵵ	ƫ	ȶ
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History Palaeography Derivations Diacritics Punctuation Numerals Unicode List of letters ISO/IEC 646