Sound Recording Copyright ℗

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U+2117

Symbol Meaning

The Latin capital letter “P” in a circle actually represents the copyright symbol used in the music industry. This symbol indicates a melody, composition, song, or other work which is protected by copyright. The letter “P” is used in the symbol for a reason; it refers to the English word “phonogram.”

Usually, next to the Sound Recording Copyright symbol you can also see the year of the work's release and the owner's identifier. The unfilled circle with a “P” belongs to Letterlike Symbols 2100–214F .

The symbol “Sound Recording Copyright” is included in the “Letterlike symbols” subblock of the “Letterlike Symbols” block and was approved as part of Unicode version 1.1 in 1993.

This text is also available in: Español; Русский;

Synonyms

published, phonorecord sign.

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Unicode Name	Sound Recording Copyright
Unicode Number
Entity	&copysr;
Plane	0: Basic Multilingual Plane
Unicode Block	Letterlike Symbols
Unicode Subblock	Letterlike symbols
Unicode Version	1.1 (1993)

Type of paired mirror bracket (bidi)	None
Composition Exclusion	No
Case change	2117
Simple case change	2117
Grapheme_Base	+
scripts	Common

Encoding	hex	dec (bytes)	dec	binary
UTF-8	E2 84 97	226 132 151	14845079	11100010 10000100 10010111
UTF-16BE	21 17	33 23	8471	00100001 00010111
UTF-16LE	17 21	23 33	5921	00010111 00100001
UTF-32BE	00 00 21 17	0 0 33 23	8471	00000000 00000000 00100001 00010111
UTF-32LE	17 21 00 00	23 33 0 0	388038656	00010111 00100001 00000000 00000000