What ₱ means
It marks an amount in Philippine pesos. In 1903, under U.S. colonial rule, officials were directed to write the new Philippine peso as a P with two horizontal bars, keeping it apart from . In Filipino the currency is called the piso.
Everyday price notation in the Philippines; write PHP instead on bank forms or cross-border invoices.
A bare means dollars or another peso, not Philippine pesos.
Part of collections
Don't confuse it with
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Dollar Sign
$ is an S with a vertical stroke and usually means dollars; ₱ is a P with two horizontal bars and means Philippine pesos.
Ruble Sign
The ruble sign is a P with one horizontal bar below the bowl. ₱ has two bars crossing through the top.
Latin Capital Letter P With Stroke
Latin capital P with stroke is a letter with a single bar. It is not a currency sign.
Combination ideas
3One hundred Philippine pesos.
The Philippine peso.
Sending or spending pesos.
Questions people ask
1Why does ₱ show as a box on some devices?
Because that device's fonts have no glyph for it. The character is still correct and still copies correctly — the box is a missing glyph, not a broken character.
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Collections with ₱
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How to type or find ₱
- Also called
- Philippine peso sign · Filipino peso sign · piso sign
- Search it as
- php symbol · peso symbol · piso · philippine peso · p with two lines · peso mark
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
HTML
₱CSS
\20B1how to type peso sign on Windows
In Word, type 20B1 then press Alt X; some apps also accept Alt 8369 on the numeric keypad.
Mac
Press Control Command Space and search "peso" in Character Viewer.
iPhone and Android
With a Filipino keyboard or region set, long-press the key.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
₱
HTML hex
₱
CSS content
content: "\20B1";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E2%82%B1
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On screen
1
Code points
1
JS .length
3
UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.