T

ISO 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

Cursive script 't' and capital 'T'

T (named tee /ˈtiː/^[1]) is the 20th letter in the ISO basic Latin alphabet. It is the most commonly used consonant and the second most common letter in the English language.^[2]

History [edit]

Phoenician taw	Etruscan T	Greek Tau

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 all of these alphabets.

Usage [edit]

In English, ⟨t⟩ often denotes the voiceless alveolar plosive (International Phonetic Alphabet and X-SAMPA: /t/), as in "tea", "tee", or "ties", often with aspiration at the beginnings of words or before stressed vowels.

Related letters and other similar characters [edit]

• Τ τ : Greek letter Tau
• Т т : Cyrillic letter Te

Computing codes [edit]

¹ Also for encodings based on ASCII, including the DOS, Windows, ISO-8859 and Macintosh families of encodings.

Other representations [edit]

NATO phonetic	Morse code
Tango	–

Signal flag	Flag semaphore	Braille

References [edit]

External links [edit]

• Media related to T at Wikimedia Commons
• The dictionary definition of T at Wiktionary
• The dictionary definition of t at Wiktionary