Pe (Persian letter)

Pe (پ) is a letter in the Perso-Arabic alphabet for [p].

It is used in Persian and Kurdish and other Iranian languages, Uyghur, Urdu, Pashto language, Sindhi, Kashmiri, Shina language, and Turkic languages (before the Latin and Cyrillic scripts were adopted but not in Arabic, which usually replace it with the letter bāʼ (ب). However, it is sometimes used in some Arabic dialects to transliterate foreign words or to write scientific words such as protein (بروتين or پروتين).

Position in word: Isolated Final Medial Initial
Glyph form: پ ـپ ـپـ پـ

Character encodings

Characterپ
Unicode nameARABIC LETTER PEH
Encodingsdecimalhex
Unicode1662U+067E
UTF-8217 190D9 BE
Numeric character referenceپپ

See also


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