ラテン小文字P p

Latin Small Letter P p. Such lowercase Latin letters appeared in the Middle Ages and derived from the so-called 「minuscule script」. It's a style of writing characterized by small and rounded letters, which were designed to be written quickly and efficiently by scribes. Miniscule scripts would come in handy when it was necessary to save money on expensive parchment.

The situation was a bit different in the Cyrillic script. People used other ways to save space there. They would write letters above letters and pick cheaper materials like birch bark. Minuscule letters were not widely used there, which is why, for example, Russian writing seemed to consist only of capital letters. As for people from other relative cultures, Bulgarians and Serbs borrowed some typographic traditions from the West, so their script is closer to the Latin script.

シンボル「ラテン小文字P」は「基本ラテン文字」ブロックの「ラテンアルファベットの小文字」サブブロックに含まれており、1993年にUnicodeバージョン1.1の一部として承認されました。