Script Capital P
Part of Math Symbols
Script Capital P has no standard Windows Alt code. Copy the character directly, or use its HTML entity or Unicode value instead.
- Alt code
- None
- HTML entity
- ℘
- Unicode
- U+2118
About this symbol
℘ is the Weierstrass p, a handwritten-style p that Karl Weierstrass used for his elliptic function in the nineteenth century. Mathematicians also use it for the power set, the set of all subsets of a set.
Unicode facts
- Official name
- SCRIPT CAPITAL P
- Type
- Maths symbol
- Unicode block
- Letterlike Symbols
- Added in
- Unicode 1.1 (1993)
- Unicode notes
- Actually this has the form of a lowercase calligraphic p, despite its name
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