P with stroke

Not to be confused with the Latin letter Ꝑ and Armenian letter ք.

Ᵽ (minuscule: ᵽ) or "P with stroke" is a letter of the Latin alphabet, formed from P with the addition of a stroke, usually through the bowl but sometimes through the descender. It is used in some phonetic transcription systems, such as the Americanist phonetic notation, to represent a fricative [ɸ].

P with stroke
Ᵽ ᵽ
Usage
Writing system	Latin script
Type	alphabetic
Language of origin	Tanimuca-Retuarã language, Americanist phonetic notation
Sound values	[ɸ]
In Unicode	U 1D7D, U 2C63
History
Development	𐌐 P p Ᵽ ᵽ
Time period	1987 to present
Other
Writing direction	Left-to-Right

In 1987 ᵽ was adopted for writing the Tanimuca-Retuarã language, where it represents either a fricative or a stop depending on the dialect.

PotCoin uses a design of the P with stroke as a symbol of its digital cryptocurrency.

P with stroke through descender in Doulos SIL

There is also a P with stroke through descender Ꝑ (minuscule: ꝑ) used in the medieval period as a scribal abbreviation for per, par-, por-.

Encoding

The minuscule form, U 1D7D ᵽ LATIN SMALL LETTER P WITH STROKE was added to Unicode 4.1 in 2005, while the majuscule U 2C63 Ᵽ LATIN CAPITAL LETTER P WITH STROKE was added to version 5.0 in 2006.

Character information

Preview	Ᵽ		ᵽ		Ꝑ		ꝑ
Unicode name	LATIN CAPITAL LETTER P WITH STROKE		LATIN SMALL LETTER P WITH STROKE		LATIN CAPITAL LETTER P WITH STROKE THROUGH DESCENDER		LATIN SMALL LETTER P WITH STROKE THROUGH DESCENDER
Encodings	decimal	hex	dec	hex	dec	hex	dec	hex
Unicode	11363	U 2C63	7549	U 1D7D	42832	U A750	42833	U A751
UTF-8	226 177 163	E2 B1 A3	225 181 189	E1 B5 BD	234 157 144	EA 9D 90	234 157 145	EA 9D 91
Numeric character reference	Ᵽ	Ᵽ	ᵽ	ᵽ	Ꝑ	Ꝑ	ꝑ	ꝑ