T

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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 spelled tee (pronounced /tiË/).^[1] It is the most commonly used consonant and the second most common letter in the English language.^[2]

1 History 2 Codes for computing 3 See also 4 References

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Proto-Semitic T Phoenician T Etruscan T Greek Tau

Taw was the last letter of the Western Semitic and Hebrew alphabets, and probably represented a cross. The sound value of Semitic Taw, Greek alphabet TÎ±Ï… (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 â€“

Signal flag Flag semaphore Braille

In Unicode the capital T is codepoint U+0054 and the lower case 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] See also

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Ð¢, Ñ‚ - Te (Cyrillic) Î¤, Ï„ - Tau (Greek)

[edit] 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. Retrieved on 2008-06-25.

The ISO basic Latin alphabet