U+A752 "Ꝓ" Latin Capital Letter P with Flourish Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
Ꝓ
U+A752 "Ꝓ" Latin Capital Letter P with Flourish is a medieval typographic variant of the letter P, distinguished by an elaborate decorative stroke or loop typically extending from its stem. This character was primarily used in Latin manuscript abbreviations and scribal shorthand, where the flourish could signify a contraction for words like "pro" or "per" in Old and Middle English texts. It belongs to the Latin Extended-D block of Unicode, which encodes historical and scholarly letterforms for digital representation. As a specialized glyph, Ꝓ is rarely employed in modern typography but remains essential for accurate philological transcription and the preservation of paleographic documents.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A752 |
| Version Added | 5.1 |
| Name | Latin Capital Letter P with Flourish |
| Block | Latin Extended-D |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ꝓ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ꝓ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0x9D 0x92 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA752 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A752 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua752 |
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 | "ꝓ" U+A753 Latin Small Letter P with Flourish |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ꝓ" U+A753 Latin Small Letter P with Flourish |
| Simple Case Folding | "ꝓ" U+A753 Latin Small Letter P with Flourish |
| Case Folding | "ꝓ" U+A753 Latin Small Letter P with Flourish |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ꝓ" U+A753 Latin Small Letter P with Flourish |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ꝓ" U+A753 Latin Small Letter P with Flourish |
| 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 |