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Pe (П п; italics: ''П п'') is a letter of the Cyrillic script.
It commonly represents the unaspirated
The capital Cyrillic letter Pe looks exactly like the Greek capital Pi from which it is derived, and small Pe looks like a smaller version of the same, though with a less prominent horizontal bar (Greek Π π > Cyrillic П п). Pe is not to be confused with the Cyrillic letter El (Л л; italics: ''Л л''), which has a hook on its left leg in some fonts (in others El resembles the Greek
voiceless bilabial plosive
The voiceless bilabial plosive or stop is a type of consonantal sound used in most spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is , and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is p.
Features
Features o ...
, like the pronunciation of in "spin".
History
The Cyrillic letter Pe was derived from the Greek letter Pi (Π π). The name of Pe in theEarly Cyrillic alphabet
The Early Cyrillic alphabet, also called classical Cyrillic or paleo-Cyrillic, is a writing system that was developed in the First Bulgarian Empire during the late 9th century on the basis of the Greek alphabet for the Slavic people living ...
was (''pokoi''), meaning "peaceful state".
In the Cyrillic numeral system, Pe had a value of 80.
Form
The capital Cyrillic letter Pe looks exactly like the Greek capital Pi from which it is derived, and small Pe looks like a smaller version of the same, though with a less prominent horizontal bar (Greek Π π > Cyrillic П п). Pe is not to be confused with the Cyrillic letter El (Л л; italics: ''Л л''), which has a hook on its left leg in some fonts (in others El resembles the Greek Lambda
Lambda (}, ''lám(b)da'') is the 11th letter of the Greek alphabet, representing the voiced alveolar lateral approximant . In the system of Greek numerals, lambda has a value of 30. Lambda is derived from the Phoenician Lamed . Lambda gave ris ...
(Λ)).
In italics and handwriting, capital Pe looks identical to the Greek capital Pi in these forms. The lowercase forms, however, differ among the languages that use the Cyrillic alphabet. Small italic Cyrillic Pe in the majority of fonts or handwritten styles looks like the small italic Latin N . In handwritten Serbian, however, it appears as a Latin U with a bar over it .
Usage
As used in the alphabets of various languages, Pe represents the following sounds: *voiceless bilabial plosive
The voiceless bilabial plosive or stop is a type of consonantal sound used in most spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is , and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is p.
Features
Features o ...
, like the pronunciation of in "pack"
* palatalized voiceless bilabial plosive
The pronunciations shown in the table are the primary ones for each language; for details consult the articles on the languages.
Related letters and other similar characters
*Π π : Greek letter Pi *Ԥ ԥ : Cyrillic letter Pe with descender *Ҧ ҧ : Cyrillic letter Pe with middle hook *Л л : Cyrillic letter El *N n : Latin letter N *P p : Latin letter P *Р р : Cyrillic letter РComputing codes
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