U+1E55 "ṕ" Latin Small Letter P with Acute Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ṕ
U+1E55 "ṕ" Latin Small Letter P with Acute is a combined character used in certain Latin-based orthographies to represent a distinct phoneme, most notably found in the Sencoten language of the Coast Salish people in British Columbia, Canada. It consists of the base letter p modified with an acute accent above it, indicating a specific pronunciation that differs from the plain p sound. This character is part of the Latin Extended Additional block and is encoded for digital text to accurately represent the precise linguistic needs of writing systems that require diacritical marks. Its inclusion in Unicode ensures that such specialized alphabets can be rendered consistently across different platforms and applications.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1E55 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Small Letter P with Acute |
| Block | Latin Extended Additional |
| General Category | Lowercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "p" U+0070 Latin Small Letter P "́" U+0301 Combining Acute Accent |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ṕ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ṕ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xB9 0x95 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1E55 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001E55 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1e55 |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKC Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Alphabetic |
| Lowercase | Yes |
| Simple Uppercase Code Point | "Ṕ" U+1E54 Latin Capital Letter P with Acute |
| Simple Titlecase Code Point | "Ṕ" U+1E54 Latin Capital Letter P with Acute |
| Uppercase Code Point | "Ṕ" U+1E54 Latin Capital Letter P with Acute |
| Titlecase Code Point | "Ṕ" U+1E54 Latin Capital Letter P with Acute |
| 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 |