U+1E56 "Ṗ" Latin Capital Letter P with Dot Above Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
Ṗ
U+1E56 "Ṗ" Latin Capital Letter P with Dot Above is a modified version of the standard Latin letter P, distinguished by a small dot placed directly above the letter. This character is primarily used in specific alphabets and transcription systems, such as in the transliteration of Indic scripts like Sanskrit, where it represents a particular sound, often a retroflex or aspirated plosive, depending on the linguistic context. It can also appear in some older or scholarly orthographies for African or other languages that employ diacritical marks to indicate distinctive phonetic features. As a precomposed character in Unicode, it ensures consistent representation and display across digital platforms without requiring separate combining marks.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1E56 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Capital Letter P with Dot Above |
| Block | Latin Extended Additional |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "P" U+0050 Latin Capital Letter P "̇" U+0307 Combining Dot Above |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ṗ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ṗ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xB9 0x96 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1E56 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001E56 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1e56 |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKC Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Alphabetic |
| Uppercase | Yes |
| Simple Lowercase Code Point | "ṗ" U+1E57 Latin Small Letter P with Dot Above |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ṗ" U+1E57 Latin Small Letter P with Dot Above |
| Simple Case Folding | "ṗ" U+1E57 Latin Small Letter P with Dot Above |
| Case Folding | "ṗ" U+1E57 Latin Small Letter P with Dot Above |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ṗ" U+1E57 Latin Small Letter P with Dot Above |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ṗ" U+1E57 Latin Small Letter P with Dot Above |
| 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 |