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Usage | |
Writing system | Latin script |
Type | Alphabetic and Logographic |
Language of origin | Latin language |
Phonetic usage | /tiː/ |
Unicode codepoint | U+0054, U+0074 |
Alphabetical position | 20 |
History | |
Development | |
Time period | ~-700 to present |
Descendants | • Th (digraph) • ™ • ₮ • ₸ • Ŧ • Ť • Ţ • Ʇ |
Sisters | 𐍄 Т Ҭ Ћ Ҵ ת ت ܬ ة ࠕ 𐎚 𐎙 ተ ፐ Տ տ Ց ց त ट ત ટ ⶊ |
Other | |
Other letters commonly used with | t(x), th, tzsch |
Writing direction | Left-to-right |
ISO basic Latin alphabet |
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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 /ˈtiː/), plural tees.
It is derived from the Semitic Taw 𐤕 of the Phoenician and Paleo-Hebrew script (Aramaic and Hebrew Taw ת/𐡕/, 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.
Phoenician Taw |
Western Greek Tau |
Etruscan T |
Latin T |
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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 most of these alphabets.
Languages in italics are not usually written using the Latin alphabet | ||||
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Language | Dialect(s) | Pronunciation (IPA) | Environment | Notes |
Mandarin Chinese | Standard | /tʰ/ | Pinyin romanization | |
English | /t/, silent | See English orthography | ||
French | /t/, silent | See French orthography | ||
German | /t/ | |||
Portuguese | /t/ | |||
Spanish | /t/ | |||
Turkish | /t/ |
In English, ⟨t⟩ usually denotes the voiceless alveolar plosive (International Phonetic Alphabet and X-SAMPA: /t/), as in tart, tee, or ties, often with aspiration at the beginnings of words or before stressed vowels.
The digraph ⟨ti⟩ often corresponds to the sound /ʃ/ (a voiceless palato-alveolar sibilant) word-medially when followed by a vowel, as in nation, ratio, negotiation, and Croatia.
The letter ⟨t⟩ corresponds to the affricate /t͡ʃ/ in some words as a result of yod-coalescence (for example, in words ending in "-ture", such as future).
A common digraph is ⟨th⟩, which usually represents a dental fricative, but occasionally represents /t/ (as in Thomas and thyme.)
In a few words of modern French origin, the letter T is silent at the end of a word; these include croquet and debut.
In the orthographies of other languages, ⟨t⟩ is often used for /t/, the voiceless dental plosive /t̪/, or similar sounds.
In the International Phonetic Alphabet, ⟨t⟩ denotes the voiceless alveolar plosive.
Preview | T | t | T | t | ||||
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Unicode name | LATIN CAPITAL LETTER T | LATIN SMALL LETTER T | FULLWIDTH LATIN CAPITAL LETTER T | FULLWIDTH LATIN SMALL LETTER T | ||||
Encodings | decimal | hex | dec | hex | dec | hex | dec | hex |
Unicode | 84 | U+0054 | 116 | U+0074 | 65332 | U+FF34 | 65364 | U+FF54 |
UTF-8 | 84 | 54 | 116 | 74 | 239 188 180 | EF BC B4 | 239 189 148 | EF BD 94 |
Numeric character reference | T |
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EBCDIC family | 227 | E3 | 163 | A3 | ||||
ASCII 1 | 84 | 54 | 116 | 74 |
NATO phonetic | Morse code |
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Signal flag | Flag semaphore | American manual alphabet (ASL fingerspelling) | British manual alphabet (BSL fingerspelling) | Braille dots-2345 Unified English Braille |