U+A754 "" Latin Capital Letter P with Squirrel Tail Unicode Character

Unicode Version 18.0

Source: Noto Sans Source: Browser Default

U+A754 "" 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
Name
Latin Capital Letter P with Squirrel Tail

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