P with stroke

Not to be confused with the Latin letter Ꝑ and Armenian letter ք.

Ᵽ (minuscule: ᵽ) or "p with stroke" is a letter of the Latin alphabet, formed from P with the addition of a stroke, usually through the bowl but sometimes through the descender. It is used in some phonetic transcription systems, such as the Americanist phonetic notation, to represent a fricative [ɸ].

In 1987 ᵽ was adopted for writing the Tanimuca-Retuarã language, where it represents either a fricative or a stop depending on the dialect.

Encoding

The minuscule form, U+1D7D ᵽ LATIN SMALL LETTER P WITH STROKE (HTML ᵽ) was added to Unicode 4.1 in 2005, while the majuscule U+2C63 Ᵽ LATIN CAPITAL LETTER P WITH STROKE (HTML Ᵽ) was added to version 5.0 in 2006.

As of 2006, few fonts support either character. Charis SIL and Doulos SIL display only the minuscule.

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