U+A753 "ꝓ" Latin Small Letter P with Flourish Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
U+A753 "ꝓ" Latin Small Letter P with Flourish is a specialized medieval typographic variant of the letter 'p', distinguished by a decorative flourish or descender loop extending below the baseline. This character was primarily used in Latin manuscript abbreviations, often standing for the syllable "pro" or "per" in scribal shorthand, reflecting a common practice in early European writing systems to condense words through ligatures and stylized forms. As part of the Latin Extended-D block, it serves as a historical orthographic symbol for digital typography and scholarly text reproduction, preserving the visual conventions of medieval scribes. Its inclusion in Unicode allows for accurate representation of such historical documents in modern digital formats without losing the original scribal intent.
General Properties
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding |
ꝓ |
| HTML Hex Encoding |
ꝓ |
| UTF-8 Encoding |
0xEA 0x9D 0x93 |
| UTF-16 Encoding |
0xA753 |
| UTF-32 Encoding |
0x0000A753 |
| C/C++/Java Escape |
\ua753 |
Unicode Properties