Pe (Persian: پ) is a letter in the Persian alphabet and the Kurdish alphabet used to represent the voiceless bilabial plosive ⟨p⟩.[1] It is based on (Arabic: ب) with two additional diacritic dots. It is one of the five letters that were created specifically for the Persian alphabet to symbolize sounds found in Persian but not in Standard Arabic, others being Persian: ژ, Persian: چ, and Persian: گ, in addition the obsolete Persian: ڤ.[2] [3] In name and shape, it is a variant of be (ب). It is used in Persian, Kurdish, Pashto, Balochi, and other Iranian languages, Uyghur, Urdu, Sindhi, Kashmiri, Shina, and Turkic languages (before the Latin and Cyrillic scripts were adopted). Its numerical value is 2000 (see Abjad numerals).
It is one of additional common foreign letters that are sometimes used in some Arabic dialects to represent foreign sounds, it represents pronounced as //p// in loanwords and it can be substituted by Arabic: ب pronounced as //b// such as in protein which is written as Arabic: بروتين pronounced as //broːtiːn// or Arabic: پروتين pronounced as //proːtiːn//. In Egypt, the letter is called (به بتلات نقط<!--not باء--> pronounced as /arz/, "be with three dots"). In Israel, the letter is sometimes used to transliterate names containing pronounced as //p// into Arabic, when that sound originates in non-Semitic languages; when the pronounced as //p// sound comes from a Hebrew word, there is normally an Arabic translation instead.
When representing this sound in transliteration of Persian into Hebrew, it is written as ב׳.