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Not to be confused with ㅜ.
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]
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History
Phoenician
tawEtruscan T Greek
TauTaw 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
- ^ "T" Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition (1989); Merriam-Webster's Third New International Dictionary of the English Language, Unabridged (1993); "tee," op. cit.
- ^ 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
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