T
T is the twentieth letter in the basic modern Latin alphabet. Its name in English (pronounced /ˈtiː/) is spelled tee. It is the most commonly used consonant and the second most common letter in the English language.
History
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 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.
Codes for computing
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 "<tt>&#84;</tt>" and "<tt>&#116;</tt>" for upper and lower case respectively.
Translation
The word "T" occurs as such in the following languages: English, Afrikaans, Alemannic, Arabic, Assyrian Neo-Aramaic, Asturian, Azeri, Min Nan, Bosnian, Catalan, Czech, Corsican, Welsh, Danish, German, Greek, Spanish, Esperanto, Basque, Persian, West Frisian, Friulian, Scottish Gaelic, Galician, Gan, Korean, Croatian, Ilokano, Icelandic, Italian, Hebrew, Georgian, Cornish, Swahili, Haitian, Latin, Latvian, Lithuanian, Hungarian, Mazandarani, Malay, Nahuatl, Japanese, Norwegian (Bokmål), Norwegian (Nynorsk), Norman, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Quechua, Northern Sami, Saterland Frisian, Sicilian, Simple English, Slovak, Slovenian, Finnish, Swedish, Tagalog, Thai, Vietnamese, Volapük, Yiddish, Yoruba, Cantonese, Samogitian, Chinese.
Translation(s) in other languages: Breton: T (lizherenn), French: T (lettre), Manx: Tramman (lettyr), Macedonian: T (Латиница), Dutch: T (letter), Uzbek: T (harf), Russian: T (латиница), Serbian: T (слово латинице), Turkish: T (harf), Ukrainian: T (латиниця).
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