Sound Recording Copyright ℗
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 Symbols2100–214F .
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.
Synonyms
published, phonorecord sign.
| Unicode Name | Sound Recording Copyright |
| Unicode Number | |
| HTML Code | |
| CSS Code | |
| Entity | ℗ |
| 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 |