T

From the Etruscan letter 𐌕 (t, “te”), from the Ancient Greek letter Τ (T, “tau”), derived from the Phoenician letter 𐤕 (t, “taw”), from the Egyptian hieroglyph 𓏴.

Letter

T (lower case t)

The twentieth letter of the basic modern Latin alphabet.

Symbol

T

tesla, the SI unit of magnetic flux density.
tera-
(genetics) IUPAC 1-letter abbreviation for thymine
(biochemistry) IUPAC 1-letter abbreviation for threonine
(mathematics) matrix transpose
(chemistry) tritium
(linguistics) a wildcard for a tone or stress level (the tonicity of a syllable)
(archaic, alchemy) a crucible [abbreviation of tigillum; see 🝨.]

Gallery

Letter styles
Uppercase and lowercase versions of T, in normal and italic type
Uppercase and lowercase T in Fraktur

English

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

(letter name): IPA^(key): /tiː/
(phoneme): IPA^(key): /t/
(main allophones): IPA^(key): [tʰ], [t], [t̬], [ɾ], [ʔ]

Audio (General American):

(file)

Letter

T (upper case, lower case t, plural Ts or T's)

The twentieth letter of the English alphabet, called tee and written in the Latin script.

Derived terms

Number

T (upper case, lower case t)

The ordinal number twentieth, derived from this letter of the English alphabet, called tee and written in the Latin script.

Etymology 2

Abbreviations.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /tiː/
Rhymes: -iː
Homophones: te, tea, tee, ti

Adjective

T

(ratings) Teen.
(finance) Taxable.
American Library Association abbreviation of twentieth, a book size range (12.5–15 cm in height).
Transgender or transsexual.
Synonyms: TG, TS

Noun

T (countable and uncountable, plural Ts)

(informal) A T-shirt.
Alternative form: tee
- 2005, Kate Brian, Lucky T, page 8:
  "I'm telling you, every good thing that has happened to me is because of this lucky T." Carrie had an extensive list going of all the positive moments that occurred after she got the T-shirt. She wore the lucky T to varsity basketball tryouts […]
Abbreviation of Tuesday.
Abbreviation of Thursday.
(music) Tenor.
(automotive) The Ford Motor Company's Model T automobile.
(rail transport, in multiple unit formations) Trailer car.
(informal, with the) The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority, or MBTA; specifically, the subway or train.
I'm going to take the T.
(sports) Abbreviation of ties (statistic).
Coordinate terms: W (“wins”), L (“losses”)
(basketball) A technical foul.
(especially LGBTQ) Abbreviation of testosterone.
Coordinate term: E (“estrogen”)
(medicine) A T wave.
- 1999, Thomas M. Blake, Annotated Atlas of Electrocardiography: A Guide to Confident Interpretation, New York, NY: Springer Science+Business Media, →ISBN, page 63:
  The symmetry of the negative Ts in II, III, and avF (210) may have that significance, or it may mean coronary insufficiency in a patient with an old infarct, or may be a stable part of an old lesion.
(immunology) A T cell.
- '2020 May 2, “Leaving lockdown means understanding immune responses to the virus”, in The Economist‎^[1]:
  Mind your Bs and Ts'
  The other prong comes in the form of “T” lymphocytes (which mature in the thymus). These recognise and kill infected body cells.
(construction) A T-beam.
(nautical, historical) Abbreviation of temperance; marked in the ship's books when a sailor chose money instead of the daily rum ration.
Coordinate term: G (“grog”)

Proper noun

T

(stock ticker symbol) AT&T.
(informal, with the) The roughly T-shaped rural part of Pennsylvania, located between Philadelphia and Pittsburgh.
Synonym: Pennsyltucky

The candidate needs to win the T to take the state.

Prefix

T

(stenoscript) the prefix trans-.

Afar

Letter

T

The third letter in the Afar alphabet.

Afrikaans

Pronunciation

(letter name): IPA^(key): /tɪə/

Letter

T (upper case, lower case t)

The twentieth letter of the Afrikaans alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Noun

T (plural T's, diminutive T'tjie)

T

Angami

Letter

T

The twenty-second letter of the Angami alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Azerbaijani

Letter

T upper case (lower case t)

The twenty-seventh letter of the Azerbaijani alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Basque

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /te/, [t̪e̞]

Letter

T (upper case, lower case t)

The twenty-first letter of the Basque alphabet, called te and written in the Latin script.

Central Franconian

Etymology

/t/ is from unshifted West Germanic *t (in tr, ft, st, ht and relicts); occasionally from *d, *þ through analogy (e.g. preterite suffix); from *þþ; in most of Moselle Franconian also from *dd.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /t/

Letter

T

A letter in the German-based alphabet of Central Franconian.
A letter in the Dutch-based alphabet of Central Franconian.

Usage notes

Doubling of T

In the German-based spelling, t is doubled after short vowels except in certain function words and when the letter is followed by another consonant within the word stem.
In the Dutch-based spelling, t is doubled after short vowels if the syllable were otherwise open.

Central Mazahua

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /t/

Letter

T (lower case t)

A letter of the Mazahua alphabet.

Chinese

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): tì (ti⁴)

(Zhuyin): ㄊㄧˋ

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: tì
  - Zhuyin: ㄊㄧˋ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: tì
  - Wade–Giles: tʻi⁴
  - Yale: tì
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tih
  - Palladius: ти (ti)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰi⁵¹/

Noun

T

(LGBTQ) butch lesbian

Antonyms

P (“femme, lipstick lesbian”)

Etymology 2

Pronunciation 1

Mandarin
(Pinyin): tì (ti⁴)

(Zhuyin): ㄊㄧˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): ti¹
Southern Min
(Hokkien, POJ): thi

(Teochew, Peng'im): ti⁵
Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): ¹thi

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: T
  - Zhuyin: ㄊㄧˋ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: tì
  - Wade–Giles: tʻi⁴
  - Yale: tì
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tih
  - Palladius: ти (ti)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰi⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: ti¹
  - Yale: tī
  - Cantonese Pinyin: ti¹
  - Guangdong Romanization: ti¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰiː⁵⁵/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Xiamen)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: thi
  - Tâi-lô: thi
  - Phofsit Daibuun: ty
  - IPA (Xiamen): /tʰi⁴⁴/
- (Teochew)
  - Peng'im: ti⁵
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: thî
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰi⁵⁵/
Wu
- (Northern: Shanghai)
  - Wugniu: ¹thi
  - MiniDict: thi^平
  - Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ¹thi
  - Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /tʰi⁵³/

Letter

T

The twentieth letter of the Latin alphabet.

Pronunciation 2

Mandarin
(Pinyin): tē, tê̄ (te¹, tê¹)

(Zhuyin): ㄊㄜ, ㄊㄝ

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, common)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: tē
  - Zhuyin: ㄊㄜ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: te
  - Wade–Giles: tʻê¹
  - Yale: tē
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: te
  - Palladius: тэ (tɛ)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰɤ⁵⁵/
- (Standard Chinese, official)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: tê̄
  - Zhuyin: ㄊㄝ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: tê
  - Wade–Giles: tʻeh¹
  - Yale: tē
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tè
  - Palladius: тэй (tɛj)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰɛ⁵⁵/

Letter

T

The twentieth letter used in Pinyin.

Usage notes

《汉语拼音方案》 defines a standard pronunciation for each letter. However, these pronunciations are rarely used in education; another pronunciation is commonly used instead.
The pronunciation above are only used while referring to letters in Pinyin. They are not used in other context (such as English).

Chipewyan

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /tʰ/

Letter

T (lower case t)

A letter of the Chipewyan alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Dutch

Pronunciation

(letter name): IPA^(key): /teː/
Audio: (file)

Letter

T (capital, lowercase t)

the twentieth letter of the Dutch alphabet

Elfdalian

Alternative forms

T, ᛐ (Dalecarlian runes)

Letter

T (upper case T, lower case t)

The twenty-second letter of the Elfdalian alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Esperanto

Pronunciation

(letter name): IPA^(key): /to/
(phoneme): IPA^(key): /t/
Audio: (file)

Letter

T (upper case, lower case t)

The twenty-fourth letter of the Esperanto alphabet, called to and written in the Latin script.

Finnish

Etymology

The Finnish orthography using the Latin script was based on those of Swedish, German and Latin, and was first used in the mid-16th century. No earlier script is known. See the Wikipedia article on Finnish for more information, and T for information on the development of the glyph itself.

Letter

T (upper case, lower case t)

The twentieth letter of the Finnish alphabet, called tee and written in the Latin script.

Derived terms

compounds

French

Letter

T (upper case, lower case t)

The twentieth letter of the French alphabet, written in the Latin script.

German

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /teː/
Audio: (file)
Homophone: Tee

Letter

T (upper case, lower case t)

The twentieth letter of the German alphabet.

Noun

T

Abbreviation of tausend (“K; thousand”).
(chess) Abbreviation of Turm (“rook”).
(Austria) (on license plates of government cars) Abbreviation of Tirol.

Heiltsuk

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /tʰ/

Letter

T (lower case t)

A letter of the Heiltsuk alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Hungarian

Pronunciation

(phoneme): IPA^(key): [ˈt]
(letter name): IPA^(key): [ˈteː]

Letter

T (upper case, lower case t)

The thirty-second letter of the Hungarian alphabet, called té and written in the Latin script.

Declension

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, front unrounded harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	T	T-k
accusative	T-t	T-ket
dative	T-nek	T-knek
instrumental	T-vel	T-kkel
causal-final	T-ért	T-kért
translative	T-vé	T-kké
terminative	T-ig	T-kig
essive-formal	T-ként	T-kként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	T-ben	T-kben
superessive	T-n	T-ken
adessive	T-nél	T-knél
illative	T-be	T-kbe
sublative	T-re	T-kre
allative	T-hez	T-khez
elative	T-ből	T-kből
delative	T-ről	T-kről
ablative	T-től	T-ktől
non-attributive possessive - singular	T-é	T-ké
non-attributive possessive - plural	T-éi	T-kéi

Possessive forms of T
possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	T-m	T-im
2nd person sing.	T-d	T-id
3rd person sing.	T-je	T-i
1st person plural	T-nk	T-ink
2nd person plural	T-tek	T-itek
3rd person plural	T-jük	T-ik

Icelandic

Letter

T (lower case t)

The twenty-third letter of the Icelandic alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Ido

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /t/

Letter

T (lower case t)

The twentieth letter of the Ido alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Irish

Letter

T (upper case, lower case t)

The seventeenth letter of the Irish alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Derived terms

T-acomhal

Italian

Italian Wikipedia has an article on:

T

Wikipedia ^it

Pronunciation

(letter name) IPA^(key): ^**/ˈti/^*
- Rhymes: -i
- Homophone: ti
(phonemic realization) IPA^(key): /t/

Letter

T f or m (invariable, upper case, lower case t)

The eighteenth letter of the Italian alphabet, called ti and written in the Latin script.

Kashubian

Etymology

The Kashubian orthography is based on the Latin alphabet. No earlier script is known. See the Kashubian alphabet article on Wikipedia for more, and T for development of the glyph itself.

Letter

T (upper case, lower case t)

The twenty-seventh letter of the Kashubian alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Latin

Letter

T (upper case, lower case t)

A letter in the Latin alphabet, representing the sound /t/

Latvian

Latvian Wikipedia has an article on:

T

Wikipedia ^lv

Etymology

Proposed in 1908 as part of the new Latvian spelling by the scientific commission headed by K. Mīlenbahs, which was accepted and began to be taught in schools in 1909. Prior to that, Latvian had been written in German Fraktur, and sporadically in Cyrillic.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [t]

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Letter

T (upper case, lower case t)

The twenty-eighth letter of the Latvian alphabet, called tē and written in the Latin script.

Malay

Malay Wikipedia has an article on:

T

Wikipedia ^ms

Pronunciation

(Name of letter) IPA^(key): [ti]
(Phoneme, Syllable initial) IPA^(key): [t]
(Phoneme, Syllable final) IPA^(key): [t̚]

Letter

T

The twentieth letter of the Malay alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Navajo

Letter

T (lower case t)

A letter of the Navajo alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Nupe

Pronunciation

(phoneme): IPA^(key): /t/

Letter

T (upper case, lower case t)

The twenty-third letter of the Nupe alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Polish

Etymology

The Polish orthography is based on the Latin alphabet. No earlier script is known. See the history of Polish orthography article on Wikipedia for more, and T for development of the glyph itself.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈtɛ/

Letter

T (upper case, lower case t)

The twenty-sixth letter of the Polish alphabet, called te and written in the Latin script.

Portuguese

Letter

T (upper case, lower case t)

The twentieth letter of the Portuguese alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Noun

T m (plural Ts)

adaptor (device allowing more plugs at a socket)
Synonyms: adaptador, benjamim

Romani

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /t/

Letter

T (upper case, lower case t)

(International Standard) The twenty-sixth letter of the Romani alphabet, written in the Latin script.
(Pan-Vlax) The twenty-seventh letter of the Romani alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Romanian

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /t/

Letter

T (upper case, lower case t)

The twenty-fourth letter of the Romanian alphabet, called te or tî and written in the Latin script.

Saanich

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /t/

Letter

T

The twenty-eighth letter of the Saanich alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Scottish Gaelic

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /t̪ʰ/
(in English calques) IPA^(key): /t̪ʰiː/

Letter

T (upper case, lower case t)

The seventeenth letter of the Scottish Gaelic alphabet, written in the Latin script. It is preceded by s and followed by u. Its traditional name is teine (“gorse”).

Derived terms

lèine-T

Silesian

Etymology

The Silesian orthography is based on the Latin alphabet. No earlier script is known. See the Silesian language article on Wikipedia for more, and T for development of the glyph itself.

Letter

T (upper case, lower case t)

The twenty-eighth letter of the Silesian alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Skolt Sami

Pronunciation

(phoneme) IPA^(key): /t/

Letter

T (lower case t)

The thirtieth letter of the Skolt Sami alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Slovene

Slovene Wikipedia has an article on:

T

Wikipedia ^sl

Letter

T (capital, lowercase t)

The twenty-first letter of the Slovene alphabet, written in the Latin script.
The twenty-eighth letter of the Slovene alphabet (Resian), written in the Latin script.
The twenty-second letter of the Slovene alphabet (Natisone Valley dialect), written in the Latin script.

Somali

Pronunciation

(phoneme): IPA^(key): /t/
(letter name): IPA^(key): /tæ/

Letter

T upper case (lower case t)

The third letter of the Somali alphabet, called ta and written in the Latin script.

Usage notes

The third letter of the Somali alphabet, which follows Arabic abjad order. It is preceded by B and followed by J.

Spanish

Letter

T (upper case, lower case t)

the 21st letter of the Spanish alphabet

Swedish

Letter

T (upper case, lower case t)

The twentieth letter of the Swedish alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish T. Each pronunciation has a different source:

Filipino alphabet pronunciation is influenced by English T.
Abecedario pronunciation is from Spanish T.
Abakada alphabet pronunciation is influenced by Baybayin character ᜆ (ta).

Pronunciation

(Standard Tagalog)
- IPA^(key): /ˈti/ [ˈt̪i] (letter name, Filipino alphabet)
  - Rhymes: -i
- IPA^(key): /ˈta/ [ˈt̪a] (letter name, Abakada alphabet)
  - Rhymes: -a
- IPA^(key): /ˈte/ [ˈt̪ɛ] (letter name, Abecedario)
  - Rhymes: -e
- IPA^(key): /t/ [t̪] (phoneme)

Letter

T (upper case, lower case t, Baybayin spelling ᜆᜒ)

The twenty-second letter of the Tagalog alphabet (the Filipino alphabet), called ti and written in the Latin script.
(historical) The twenty-third letter of the Tagalog alphabet (the Abecedario), called te and written in the Latin script.

Letter

T (upper case, lower case t, Baybayin spelling ᜆ)

The seventeenth letter of the Tagalog alphabet (the Abakada alphabet), called ta and written in the Latin script.

Turkish

Letter

T (upper case, lower case t)

The twenty-fourth letter of the Turkish alphabet, called te and written in the Latin script.

Vietnamese

Pronunciation

(Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [te˧˧], [təː˨˩]
(Huế) IPA^(key): [tej˧˧], [təː˦˩]
(Saigon) IPA^(key): [tej˧˧], [təː˨˩]
Phonetic spelling: tê, tờ

Letter

T (upper case, lower case t)

The twenty-fourth letter of the Vietnamese alphabet, called tê or tờ and written in the Latin script.

Welsh

Pronunciation

(standard) IPA^(key): /tiː/
- (informal) IPA^(key): /tə/

Letter

T (upper case, lower case t)

The twenty-fifth letter of the Welsh alphabet, called ti and written in the Latin script. It is preceded by S and followed by Th.

Mutation

T at the beginning of words mutates to D in a soft mutation, to Nh in a nasal mutation and to Th in an aspirate mutation, for example with the word Tŷ (“house”):

Mutated forms of Tŷ
radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
Tŷ	Dŷ	Nhŷ	Thŷ

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Yoruba

Pronunciation

(phoneme): IPA^(key): /t/
(letter name): IPA^(key): /tí/

Letter

T (upper case, lower case t)

The twenty-second letter of the Yoruba alphabet, called tí and written in the Latin script.

Zulu

Letter

T (upper case, lower case t)

The twentieth letter of the Zulu alphabet, written in the Latin script.