Latin Capital Letter P
Part of Basic ASCII: Alt 33 to 126
On Windows, hold Alt and type 80 on the numeric keypad to insert latin capital letter p.
- Alt code
- Alt+80
- HTML entity
- P
- Unicode
- U+0050
About this symbol
P comes from pe, the Phoenician letter whose name meant mouth. The Greeks made it pi, Π, and the Romans curled its second stroke round into P. The Greek Ρ, rho, looks like a P but is an R.
Unicode facts
- Official name
- LATIN CAPITAL LETTER P
- Type
- Uppercase letter
- Unicode block
- Basic Latin
- Unicode group
- Uppercase Latin alphabet
- Added in
- Unicode 1.1 (1993)
Click the symbol or any value at the top of the page to copy it. See the full Basic ASCII: Alt 33 to 126 chart for related characters.