or "p with stroke" is a letter of the Latin alphabet

Latin alphabet

The Latin alphabet, also called the Roman alphabet, is the most recognized alphabet used in the world today. It evolved from a western variety of the Greek alphabet called the Cumaean alphabet, which was adopted and modified by the Etruscans who ruled early Rome...

, formed from P

P

P is the sixteenth letter of the basic modern Latin alphabet.-Usage:In English and most other European languages, P is a voiceless bilabial plosive. Both initial and final Ps can be combined with many other discrete consonants in English words...

 with the addition of a stroke

Bar (diacritic)

A bar or stroke is a modification consisting of a line drawn through a grapheme. It may be used as a diacritic to derive new letters from old ones, or simply as an addition to make a grapheme more distinct from others....

, usually through the bowl but sometimes through the descender

Descender

In typography, a descender is the portion of a letter that extends below the baseline of a font. The line that descenders reach down to is known as the beard line....

. It is used in some phonetic transcription

Phonetic transcription

Phonetic transcription is the visual representation of speech sounds . The most common type of phonetic transcription uses a phonetic alphabet, e.g., the International Phonetic Alphabet....

 systems, such as the Americanist phonetic notation

Americanist phonetic notation

Americanist phonetic notation is a system of phonetic notation originally developed by European and American anthropologists and language scientists for the phonetic and phonemic transcription of Native American and European languages...

, 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

Stop consonant

In phonetics, a plosive, also known as an occlusive or an oral stop, is a stop consonant in which the vocal tract is blocked so that all airflow ceases. The occlusion may be done with the tongue , lips , and &...

 depending on the dialect

Dialect

The term dialect is used in two distinct ways, even by linguists. One usage refers to a variety of a language that is a characteristic of a particular group of the language's speakers. The term is applied most often to regional speech patterns, but a dialect may also be defined by other factors,...

.

Encoding

The minuscule form, was added to Unicode

Unicode

Unicode is a computing industry standard for the consistent encoding, representation and handling of text expressed in most of the world's writing systems...

 4.1 in 2005, while the majuscule  was added to version 5.0 in 2006.

Character encoding Character encoding A character encoding system consists of a code that pairs each character from a given repertoire with something else, such as a sequence of natural numbers, octets or electrical pulses, in order to facilitate the transmission of data through telecommunication networks or storage of text in...	Case	Decimal Decimal The decimal numeral system has ten as its base. It is the numerical base most widely used by modern civilizations....	Hexadecimal Hexadecimal In mathematics and computer science, hexadecimal is a positional numeral system with a radix, or base, of 16. It uses sixteen distinct symbols, most often the symbols 0–9 to represent values zero to nine, and A, B, C, D, E, F to represent values ten to fifteen...
Unicode Unicode Unicode is a computing industry standard for the consistent encoding, representation and handling of text expressed in most of the world's writing systems...	Capital	11363	2C63
	Small	7549	1D7D

, few fonts

Typeface

In typography, a typeface is the artistic representation or interpretation of characters; it is the way the type looks. Each type is designed and there are thousands of different typefaces in existence, with new ones being developed constantly....

 support either character. Charis SIL

Charis SIL

Charis SIL is a glyphic serif typeface developed by SIL International. It is based on Bitstream Charter, one of the first fonts designed for laser printers...

 and Doulos SIL

Doulos SIL

Doulos SIL is a serif typeface developed by SIL International, very similar to Times or Times New Roman. Unlike Times New Roman, Doulos only has a single face, Regular...

 display only the minuscule.

See also

Other symbols for fricatives formed with a stroke:

• ƀ
• đ
• ǥ
• k with stroke
  K with stroke
  K with stroke is a letter of the Latin alphabet, derived from K with the addition of a bar through the letter.It was used in Latin as an abbreviation for words that start with k...
  
  
• ł, ƚ
• ŧ
• q with stroke
  Q with stroke
  Q with stroke is a letter of the Latin alphabet, derived from Q with the addition of a bar through the letter.It was used in Latin as an abbreviation.It is also used as a phonetic symbol, representing a voiceless uvular fricative.-Computer encoding:...
  
  
• r with stroke
  R with stroke
  R with stroke is a letter of the Latin alphabet, derived from R with the addition of a bar through the letter. It is used in the Kanuri language. It should not be confused with ℞, a symbol used for medical prescriptions....