U+A754 "Ꝕ" Latin Capital Letter P with Squirrel Tail Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
Ꝕ
U+A754 "Ꝕ" Latin Capital Letter P with Squirrel Tail is a historical typographic glyph used primarily in medieval and early modern scribal abbreviations. This letter features a distinctive ornamental descender resembling a curled squirrel's tail attached to the bottom of the standard capital P, and it was employed in Latin manuscripts as a scribal shorthand to represent the syllable "per" or "par" before the widespread adoption of the modern printing press. Its inclusion in the Unicode standard ensures that scholars and digital typographers can accurately represent this unique character from the Latin Extended-D block, preserving a small but significant piece of paleographic and calligraphic history.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A754 |
| Version Added | 5.1 |
| Name | Latin Capital Letter P with Squirrel Tail |
| Block | Latin Extended-D |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ꝕ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ꝕ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0x9D 0x94 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA754 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A754 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua754 |
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 | "ꝕ" U+A755 Latin Small Letter P with Squirrel Tail |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ꝕ" U+A755 Latin Small Letter P with Squirrel Tail |
| Simple Case Folding | "ꝕ" U+A755 Latin Small Letter P with Squirrel Tail |
| Case Folding | "ꝕ" U+A755 Latin Small Letter P with Squirrel Tail |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ꝕ" U+A755 Latin Small Letter P with Squirrel Tail |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ꝕ" U+A755 Latin Small Letter P with Squirrel Tail |
| 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 |