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پ
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Pe (Persian letter).
Pe (پ) is a letter in the Persian alphabet and the Kurdish alphabet used to represent the voiceless bilabial plosive [p]. It is based on Bā' (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 Arabic, others being Že (ژ), Če (چ), and Gaf (گ), in addition the obsolete Ve (ڤ). In name and shape, it is a variant of Bā' (ب).