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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 is the twentieth letter in the modern Latin alphabet. Its name in English is pronounced tee [tʰi:]. It is the most commonly-used consonant, and the second most common letter, in the English language[citation needed].

Contents

  • 1 History
  • 2 Codes for computing
  • 3 Meanings of T
  • 4 See also

[edit] History

Proto-Semitic T Phoenician T Etruscan T Greek Tau

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

[edit] Codes for computing

Alternative representations of T
NATO phonetic Morse code
Tango –
Signal flag Semaphore ASL Manual Braille

In Unicode the capital T is codepoint U+0054 and the lowercase t is U+0074.

The ASCII code for capital T is 84 and for lowercase t is 116; or in binary 01010100 and 01110100, correspondingly.

The EBCDIC code for capital T is 227 and for lowercase t is 163.

The numeric character references in HTML and XML are "T" and "t" for upper and lower case respectively.

[edit] Meanings of T

See T (disambiguation).