Семит әліпбиінің "Пе" әрпі

Seventeenth letter of the Semitic scripts
the Semitic letter

Pe is the seventeenth letter of the Semitic abjads, including Phoenician pē 𐤐, Hebrew pē פ, Aramaic pē 𐡐, Syriac pē ܦ, and Arabic fāʾ ف (in abjadi order). The original sound value is a voiceless bilabial plosive and it retains this value in most Semitic languages, except for Arabic, where the sound changed into the voiceless labiodental fricative , carrying with it the pronunciation of the letter. Not to be confused with the Turned g.
The Phoenician letter gave rise to the Greek Pi (Π), Latin P, and Cyrillic П.

Pe is usually assumed to come from a pictogram of a "mouth" (in Hebrew pe; in Arabic, فا fah).

In the Arabic orthographies of Uyghur, Kazakh and Kyrgyz, the letter has a descender in the final and isolated positions, much like the Maghrebi version of
Theoretically this shape could be approximated by using , but in practice is used in databases of these languages, and most commercial fonts for these languages give the codepoint of the usual Arabic a shape like ڧ‎. When the Uyghur keyboard layout for Microsoft Windows was first added in Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008, the key combination resulted in The Uyghur keyboard layout in Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 changed that key combination to give On the newer systems, the old keyboard layout is still available under the name Uyghur (Legacy).

Normally, the letter ف renders sound, but may also be used some names and loanwords where it can render , might be arabized as in accordance to its spelling, e. g., يُونِيلِفِر (Unilever). It may be used interchangeably with the modified letter ڤ (with 3 dots above) in this case. The character is mapped in Unicode under position U+06A4.

The letter Pe is one of the six letters which can receive a Dagesh Kal. The six are Bet, Gimel, Daleth, Kaph, Pe, and Tav.

When the Pe has a "dot" in its center, known as a dagesh, it represents a voiceless bilabial plosive, There are various rules in Hebrew grammar that stipulate when and why a dagesh is used.

When Pe appears without the dagesh dot in its center (פ), then it usually represents a voiceless labiodental fricative .

At the end of words, the letter's written form changes to a Pe/Fe Sophit (Final Pe/Fe): ף. When a word in modern Hebrew borrowed from another language ends with , the non final form is used (e. g. ּפִילִיפ "Philip"), while borrowings ending in still use the Pe Sofit (e. g. כֵּיף "fun", from Arabic). This is because native Hebrew words, which always use the final form at the end, cannot end in .

In gematria, Pe represents the number 80. Its final form represents 800 but this is rarely used, Tav written twice (400+400) being used instead.