U+01A4 "Ƥ" Latin Capital Letter P with Hook Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+01A4 "Ƥ" Latin Capital Letter P with Hook is a modified variant of the standard Latin letter P, distinguished by a small hook attached to the lower right side of the letter's bowl. This character is primarily used in the African reference alphabet for phonetic transcription, where it represents a voiced bilabial implosive sound, a type of consonant produced by drawing the glottis downward while the lips are closed, creating an ingressive airflow. It is most notably employed in the orthographies of certain West African languages, such as the Ewe language of Ghana and Togo, where it serves to denote a distinct phoneme not covered by the basic Latin alphabet.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+01A4 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Capital Letter P with Hook |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Latin Capital Letter P Hook |
| Block | Latin Extended-B |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ƥ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ƥ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xC6 0xA4 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x01A4 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000001A4 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u01a4 |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFD Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKD Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Alphabetic |
| Uppercase | Yes |
| Simple Lowercase Code Point | "ƥ" U+01A5 Latin Small Letter P with Hook |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ƥ" U+01A5 Latin Small Letter P with Hook |
| Simple Case Folding | "ƥ" U+01A5 Latin Small Letter P with Hook |
| Case Folding | "ƥ" U+01A5 Latin Small Letter P with Hook |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ƥ" U+01A5 Latin Small Letter P with Hook |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ƥ" U+01A5 Latin Small Letter P with Hook |
| Script | Latin |
| Script Extensions | Latin |
| Indic Syllabic Category | Other |
| ID Start | Yes |
| XID Start | Yes |
| ID Continue | Yes |
| XID Continue | Yes |
| Alphabetic | Yes |
| Vertical Orientation | Rotated |
| Grapheme Base | Yes |
| Grapheme Cluster Break | Other |
| Word Break | Alphabetic letter |
| Sentence Break | Upper |