T

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T is the twentieth letter in the modern Latin alphabet. Its name in English is spelt tee or occasionally te (pronounced /tiː/)."T" Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition (1989); Merriam-Webster\'s Third New International Dictionary of the English Language, Unabridged (1993); "tee," op. cit. It is the most commonly used consonant and the second most common letter in the English languagehttp://pages.central.edu/emp/LintonT/classes/spring01/cryptography/letterfreq.html.

History

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 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

Alternative representations of T

NATO phonetic		Morse code
Tango		–
Signal flag	Flag semaphore	ASL Manual	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.

Meanings of T

See T (disambiguation).

References

See also

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