پ

See also: ت‎ [U+062A ARABIC LETTER TEH], ب‎ [U+0628 ARABIC LETTER BEH], ث‎ [U+062B ARABIC LETTER THEH], ٮ‎ [U+066E ARABIC LETTER DOTLESS BEH], and Appendix:Variations of "p"

پ	U+067E, پ ARABIC LETTER PEH

← ٽ
[U+067D]

Arabic

ٿ →
[U+067F]

ﭖ	U+FB56, ﭖ ARABIC LETTER PEH ISOLATED FORM

← ﭕ
[U+FB55]

Arabic Presentation Forms-A

ﭗ →
[U+FB57]

ﭗ	U+FB57, ﭗ ARABIC LETTER PEH FINAL FORM

← ﭖ
[U+FB56]

Arabic Presentation Forms-A

ﭘ →
[U+FB58]

ﭘ	U+FB58, ﭘ ARABIC LETTER PEH INITIAL FORM

← ﭗ
[U+FB57]

Arabic Presentation Forms-A

ﭙ →
[U+FB59]

ﭙ	U+FB59, ﭙ ARABIC LETTER PEH MEDIAL FORM

← ﭘ
[U+FB58]

Arabic Presentation Forms-A

ﭚ →
[U+FB5A]

Translingual

Letter

پ

Balti

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /p/, [p]

Letter

پ (p)

The third letter of the Balti alphabet, written in the Perso-Arabic script

Burushaski

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /p/, [p]

Letter

پ

The fifth letter of the Burushaski alphabet, written in the Perso-Arabic script

Central Kurdish

Letter

پ (pi)

The third letter of the Kurdo-Arabic alphabet. Its name is پا‎ (pa) and it has the sound of English P. It is preceded by ب‎ (bi) and followed by ت‎ (ti).

Synonyms

p

Chinese

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /pʰ/, [pʰ]

Letter

پ

The third letter of the Xiao'erjing abjad.

Egyptian Arabic

Pronunciation

(letter name): IPA^(key): /be be ˈtælæt ˈnoʔɑtˤ/
(phoneme): IPA^(key): /p/

Letter

پ • (be be-tálat nóʾaṭ) (be with three dots)

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Usage notes

پ‎ (be be-tálat nóʾaṭ) is not considered a distinct letter, but a variant of ب‎ (be) that is sometimes used to write foreign names and loanwords with the phoneme IPA^(key): /p/. It can be written and pronounced as a ب‎ (be) instead.

Forms

Isolated form	Final form	Medial form	Initial form
پ	ـپ	ـپـ	پـ

Hijazi Arabic

Pronunciation

(letter name): IPA^(key): /ˈpaːʔ/, /ˈbaːʔ bitalaːta nuɡa(ː)tˤ/
(phoneme): IPA^(key): /p/

Letter

پ • (pāʾ)

پ‎ (pāʾ) (an additional Arabic letter)

Usage notes

پ‎ (pāʾ) is not considered a distinct letter, but a variant of ب‎ (bāʾ) that is sometimes used to write foreign names and loanwords with the phoneme /p/. It can be written and pronounced as a ب‎ (bāʾ) instead.

Forms

Isolated form	Final form	Medial form	Initial form
پ	ـپ	ـپـ	پـ

Kashmiri

Pronunciation

(letter name): IPA^(key): /peː/
(phoneme): IPA^(key): /p/

Letter

پ • (p)

The third letter of the traditional alphabet chart of Kashmiri.

Forms

Isolated form	Final form	Medial form	Initial form
پ	ـپ	ـپـ	پـ

Kazakh

Cyrillic	П, п (P, p)
Arabic	پ
Latin	P, p

Pronunciation

(letter name): IPA^(key): /pa/
(phoneme): IPA^(key): /p/

Letter

پ • (p)

The third letter of the Kazakh in Arabic Script. It represents the Cyrillic letter П.

Forms

Isolated form	Final form	Medial form	Initial form
پ	ـپ	ـپـ	پـ

Khowar

Pronunciation

(letter name): IPA^(key): /pe/
(phoneme): IPA^(key): /p/

Letter

پ (pe)

The third letter of the Khowar abjad.

Forms

Isolated form	Final form	Medial form	Initial form
پ	ـپ	ـپـ	پـ

Pashto

Pronunciation

(letter name): IPA^(key): /pe/
(phoneme): IPA^(key): /p/

Letter

پ • (pe)

The third letter of the Pashto alphabet.

Forms

Isolated form	Final form	Medial form	Initial form
پ	ـپ	ـپـ	پـ

Persian

Alternative forms

پ پ‍ ﭙ ﭗ

Written forms
پ	پ‍	ﭙ	ﭗ
Isolated	Initial	Medial	Final

Etymology

From ‎ (b) with three dots instead of one, added to the Arabic alphabet in the creation of the Perso-Arabic script in order to accommodate the /p/ phoneme of Persian missing from Arabic.

Pronunciation

Phoneme: IPA^(key): /p/
Letter name: IPA^(key): /pe/
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Letter

پ • (p)

The third letter of the Perso-Arabic alphabet. Its names are (pe), (pe), and ‎ (bâ-ye fârsi, “the Persian ب bāʾ”).

Sindhi

Pronunciation

(letter name): IPA^(key): /pe/
(phoneme): IPA^(key): /p/

Letter

پ (pe)

The tenth letter of the Sindhi abjad.

Forms

Isolated form	Final form	Medial form	Initial form
پ	ـپ	ـپـ	پـ

Urdu

Pronunciation

(letter name): (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /peː/
(phoneme): (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /p/

Letter

پ • (pe)

The third letter of the Urdu abjad.

Forms

Isolated form	Final form	Medial form	Initial form
پ	ـپ	ـپـ	پـ

Uyghur

Pronunciation

(letter name): IPA^(key): /pe/
(phoneme): IPA^(key): /p/

Letter

پ • (pe)

The fourth letter of the Uyghur alphabet.

Forms

Isolated form	Final form	Medial form	Initial form
پ	ـپ	ـپـ	پـ

Yoruba

Pronunciation

(letter name): IPA^(key): /k͡pí/
(phoneme): IPA^(key): /k͡p/

Letter

پ (p)

The eighteenth letter of the Yoruba alphabet in the ajami script, equivalent to Latin script p.

Forms

Isolated form	Final form	Medial form	Initial form
پ	ـپ	ـپـ	پـ