Latin Small Letter P
Part of Basic ASCII: Alt 33 to 126
On Windows, hold Alt and type 112 on the numeric keypad to insert latin small letter p.
- Alt code
- Alt+112
- HTML entity
- p
- Unicode
- U+0070
About this symbol
The p in pH, the scale for how acid or alkaline a liquid is, was introduced by the Danish chemist Søren Sørensen in 1909 while he worked at the Carlsberg brewery’s laboratory. What the p stands for is still argued over; power and potential are the usual guesses.
Unicode facts
- Official name
- LATIN SMALL LETTER P
- Type
- Lowercase letter
- Unicode block
- Basic Latin
- Unicode group
- Lowercase 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.