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{{About|the letter of the Latin alphabet|the same [[letterform]] in the Cyrillic and Greek alphabets|Te (Cyrillic)|and|Tau|other uses}} | {{About|the letter of the Latin alphabet|the same [[letterform]] in the Cyrillic and Greek alphabets|Te (Cyrillic)|and|Tau|other uses}} | ||
{{Distinguish|text=[[ㅜ]], [[Tea]], [[Tee]], or various [[box-drawing character]]s}} | {{Distinguish|text=[[ㅜ]], [[Tea]], [[Tee]], or various [[box-drawing character]]s}} | ||
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===English=== | ===English=== | ||
In English, {{angbr|t}} usually denotes the [[voiceless alveolar plosive]] ([[help:IPA|International Phonetic Alphabet | In English, {{angbr|t}} usually denotes the [[voiceless alveolar plosive]] ([[help:IPA|International Phonetic Alphabet]]: {{IPAslink|t}}), as in ''tart'', ''tee'', or ''ties'', often with [[Aspirated consonant|aspiration]] at the beginnings of words or before [[Stress (linguistics)|stressed]] vowels. The letter {{angbr|t}} corresponds to the affricate {{IPA|/t͡ʃ/}} in some words as a result of [[Phonological history of English consonant clusters#Yod-coalescence|yod-coalescence]] (for example, in words ending in -"ture", such as ''future''). | ||
A common [[Digraph (orthography)|digraph]] is {{angbr|th}}, which usually represents a [[dental fricative]], but occasionally represents {{IPA|/t/}} (as in ''Thomas'' and ''thyme''). The digraph {{angbr|ti}} often corresponds to the sound {{IPA|/ʃ/}} (a [[voiceless palato-alveolar sibilant]]) word-medially when followed by a vowel, as in ''nation'', ''ratio'', ''negotiation'', and ''Croatia''. | A common [[Digraph (orthography)|digraph]] is {{angbr|th}}, which usually represents a [[dental fricative]], but occasionally represents {{IPA|/t/}} (as in ''Thomas'' and ''thyme''). The digraph {{angbr|ti}} often corresponds to the sound {{IPA|/ʃ/}} (a [[voiceless palato-alveolar sibilant]]) word-medially when followed by a vowel, as in ''nation'', ''ratio'', ''negotiation'', and ''Croatia''. | ||
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==Other representations== | ==Other representations== | ||
===Computing <span class="anchor" id="Computing codes"></span>=== | ===Computing <span class="anchor" id="Computing codes"></span>=== | ||
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| 0054 | 0074 | FF34 | | * {{unichar| 0054 }} | ||
* {{unichar| 0074 }} | |||
* {{unichar| FF34 |nlink=Halfwidth and fullwidth forms}} | |||
* {{unichar| FF54 }} | |||
[[Codepoint]]s 0054<sub>16</sub> (84<sub>10</sub>) and x0074<sub>16</sub> (116<sub>10</sub>) were used for encodings based on ASCII, including the DOS, Windows, ISO-8859 and Macintosh families of encodings. | |||
===Other=== | ===Other=== | ||
Latest revision as of 17:41, 28 August 2025
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T, or t, is the twentieth letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is tee (pronounced Template:IPAc-en), plural tees.[1]
It is derived from the Semitic Taw 𐤕 of the Phoenician and Paleo-Hebrew script (Aramaic and Hebrew Taw ת/𐡕/File:Taw.svg, Syriac Taw ܬ, and Arabic ت Tāʼ) via the Greek letter τ (tau). In English, it is most commonly used to represent the voiceless alveolar plosive, a sound it also denotes in the International Phonetic Alphabet. It is the most commonly used consonant and the second-most commonly used letter in English-language texts.[2]
History
| Phoenician Taw |
Western Greek Tau |
Etruscan T |
Latin T |
|---|---|---|---|
| File:Phoenician taw.svg | File:Greek Tau normal.svg | File:EtruscanT-01.svg | File:Capitalis monumentalis T.SVG |
Taw was the last letter of the Western Semitic and Hebrew alphabets. The sound value of Semitic Taw, the Greek alphabet Tαυ (Tau), Old Italic and Latin T has remained fairly constant, representing Template:IPAblink in each of these, and it has also kept its original basic shape in most of these alphabets.
Use in writing systems
| Orthography | Phonemes |
|---|---|
| Template:Nwr (Pinyin) | Template:IPAslink |
| English | Template:IPAslink, silent |
| French | Template:IPAslink, silent |
| German | Template:IPAslink |
| Icelandic | Template:IPAslink |
| Portuguese | Template:IPAslink |
| Template:IPAblink, allophone of Template:IPAslink before Template:IPAslink, Template:IPAslink and Template:IPAslink in some Brazilian dialects | |
| Spanish | Template:IPAslink |
| Turkish | Template:IPAslink |
English
In English, Template:Angbr usually denotes the voiceless alveolar plosive (International Phonetic Alphabet: Template:IPAslink), as in tart, tee, or ties, often with aspiration at the beginnings of words or before stressed vowels. The letter Template:Angbr corresponds to the affricate Script error: No such module "IPA". in some words as a result of yod-coalescence (for example, in words ending in -"ture", such as future).
A common digraph is Template:Angbr, which usually represents a dental fricative, but occasionally represents Script error: No such module "IPA". (as in Thomas and thyme). The digraph Template:Angbr often corresponds to the sound Script error: No such module "IPA". (a voiceless palato-alveolar sibilant) word-medially when followed by a vowel, as in nation, ratio, negotiation, and Croatia.
In a few words of modern French origin, the letter T is silent at the end of a word; these include croquet and debut.
Other languages
In the orthographies of other languages, Template:Angbr is often used for Script error: No such module "IPA"., the voiceless dental plosive Script error: No such module "IPA"., or similar sounds.
Other systems
In the International Phonetic Alphabet, Template:Angbr IPA denotes the voiceless alveolar plosive.
Other uses
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- Unit prefix T, meaning 1,000,000,000,000 times.
Related characters
- T with diacritics: Template:Not a typo[3] Template:Not a typo[4]
- Ꞇ ꞇ : Insular T,Template:Efn also used by William Pryce to designate the voiceless dental fricative [θ][5]
- ᫎ : Combining small insular t was used in the Ormulum[6]
- Template:IPA link : Turned small t is used in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)
- 𐞯 : Modifier letter small t with retroflex hook is a superscript IPA letter[7]
- 𝼉 : Latin small letter t with hook and retroflex hook is a symbol for a voiceless retroflex implosive[8][9]
- 𝼍 : Latin small turned t with curl is a click letter[10][9]
- Uralic Phonetic Alphabet-specific symbols related to T:[11]
- Template:Not a typo : Subscript small t was used in the Uralic Phonetic Alphabet prior to its formal standardization in 1902[12]
- ȶ : T with curl is used in Sino-Tibetanist linguistics[13]
- Ʇ ʇ : Turned capital T and turned small t were used in transcriptions of the Dakota language in publications of the American Board of Ethnology in the late 19th century.[14]
- 𝼪 : Small t with mid-height left hook was used by the British and Foreign Bible Society in the early 20th century for romanization of the Malayalam language.[15]
Ancestors and siblings in other alphabets
- 𐤕 : Semitic letter Taw, from which the following symbols originally derive:
- Τ τ : Greek letter Tau
- Template:Script : Coptic letter Taw, which derives from Greek Tau
- Т т : Cyrillic letter Te, also derived from Tau
- Template:Script : Gothic letter tius, which derives from Greek Tau
- 𐌕 : Old Italic T, which derives from Greek Tau, and is the ancestor of modern Latin T
- Template:Script : Runic letter teiwaz, which probably derives from old Italic T
- Τ τ : Greek letter Tau
- ፐ : One of the 26 consonantal letters of the Ge'ez script. The Ge'ez abugida developed under the influence of Christian scripture by adding obligatory vocalic diacritics to the consonantal letters. Pesa ፐ is based on Tawe ተ.
Derived signs, symbols and abbreviations
- Template:Not a typo : Trademark symbol
- ₮ : Mongolian tögrög
- ₸ : Kazakhstani tenge
- ৳ : Bangladeshi taka
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Other representations
Computing
Unicode:
Codepoints 005416 (8410) and x007416 (11610) were used for encodings based on ASCII, including the DOS, Windows, ISO-8859 and Macintosh families of encodings.
Other
Notes
References
External links
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- ↑ "T", Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition (1989); Merriam-Webster's Third New International Dictionary of the English Language, Unabridged (1993); "tee", op. cit.
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