U+1E57 "ṗ" Latin Small Letter P with Dot Above Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+1E57 "ṗ" Latin Small Letter P with Dot Above is a modified letter used primarily in certain transliteration systems and phonetic alphabets, notably in the romanization of the Armenian language where it represents the aspirated 'p' sound, and it also appears in notations for Caucasian Albanian. This character is formed by combining a standard Latin lowercase "p" with a combining dot above, signifying a specific phonetic quality such as aspiration or a distinct consonant contrast in scholarly transcriptions of ancient or minority languages. Its inclusion in Unicode ensures consistent digital representation across platforms for linguists, philologists, and historians working with specialized textual corpora.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1E57 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Small Letter P with Dot Above |
| 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+0307 Combining Dot Above |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ṗ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ṗ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xB9 0x97 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1E57 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001E57 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1e57 |
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 | "Ṗ" U+1E56 Latin Capital Letter P with Dot Above |
| Simple Titlecase Code Point | "Ṗ" U+1E56 Latin Capital Letter P with Dot Above |
| Uppercase Code Point | "Ṗ" U+1E56 Latin Capital Letter P with Dot Above |
| Titlecase Code Point | "Ṗ" U+1E56 Latin Capital Letter P with Dot Above |
| 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 |