U+01A5 "ƥ" Latin Small Letter P with Hook Unicode Character

U+01A5 "ƥ" Latin Small Letter P with Hook is a typographic variant of the standard Latin letter 'p' distinguished by a small hook attached to the right side of its bowl or descender, and it was originally used in the International Phonetic Alphabet to represent a voiceless bilabial implosive sound. Although it has since been retired from the official IPA chart, it remains encoded in Unicode for historical and scholarly purposes, as well as for use in certain African orthographies where it may denote a distinct phoneme or serve as a cultural symbol.

General Properties

Code Point	U+01A5
Version Added	1.1
Name	Latin Small Letter P with Hook
Unicode 1.0 Name	Latin Small Letter P Hook
Block	Latin Extended-B
General Category	Lowercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ƥ
HTML Hex Encoding	ƥ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xC6 0xA5
UTF-16 Encoding	0x01A5
UTF-32 Encoding	0x000001A5
C/C++/Java Escape	\u01a5

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
Lowercase	Yes
Simple Uppercase Code Point	"Ƥ" U+01A4 Latin Capital Letter P with Hook
Simple Titlecase Code Point	"Ƥ" U+01A4 Latin Capital Letter P with Hook
Uppercase Code Point	"Ƥ" U+01A4 Latin Capital Letter P with Hook
Titlecase Code Point	"Ƥ" U+01A4 Latin Capital Letter P with Hook
Cased	Yes
Changes When Casemapped	Yes
Changes When Titlecased	Yes
Changes When Uppercased	Yes
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	Lower