How to type Philippine Peso
To type Philippine Peso (₱), press Alt + 8369 on Windows, holding Alt while typing the digits on the numeric keypad, or write ₱ in HTML. On any system you can copy it from this page, or enter its codepoint U+20B1 directly: Ctrl+Shift+U then 20b1 on Linux, or 20b1 then Alt+X in Microsoft Word.
Peso Sign
- Copy it
- Unicode
- U+20B1
- Windows
- Alt + 8369 needs regedit
| Where | Shortcut | How |
|---|---|---|
| Windows | Alt + 8369 | Above 255, so Windows will not accept it as typed. Copy the character instead. |
| Mac | N/A | Press the keys together. |
| HTML | ₱ | Paste this into HTML source. |
| Unicode | U+20B1 | PESO SIGN |
Other currency symbols
₱ lives in the Currency Symbols block (U+20A0-U+20CF), currency signs added after Latin-1, including the euro. Within Unicode it is classified as Sc, a currency symbol. Formatting libraries recognise it when rendering money. Its bidirectional class makes it a European number terminator, so it sits beside a number without breaking its direction.
What Unicode says about Philippine Peso
The standard recognises ₱ under another name as well: Filipino peso sign. That is a formal alias, not a nickname, which is why it turns up in other people's documentation for the same codepoint.
Unicode annotates ₱ directly. Against U+20B1 the code chart carries the note “Philippines”. It adds: extant and discontinued Latin-American peso currencies (Mexican, Chilean, Colombian, etc.) use the dollar sign. That is the standard saying what the character is for, rather than an inference from its name.
The code chart points from ₱ to Dollar Sign and peseta sign (U+20A7). These are the characters the standard thinks you might have meant instead, which makes them the ones worth checking when Philippine Peso looks nearly right but not quite.
How Philippine Peso behaves in software
₱ takes one column in a terminal. It carries no direction of its own, so in a line that mixes English with Arabic or Hebrew it takes the direction of the text around it rather than forcing one.
What people ask about Philippine Peso
What is the symbol for pesos?
₱ is PESO SIGN, encoded at U+20B1. The Unicode code chart annotates it “Philippines”, which is the standard's own statement of what it is for. It is distinct from dollar sign (U+0024) and peseta sign (U+20A7), which the chart lists beside it precisely because they are confused for one another.
Every way to write Philippine Peso
| Form | Value |
|---|---|
| Codepoint | U+20B1 |
| Decimal | 8369 |
| UTF-8 bytes | E2 82 B1 |
| UTF-16 bytes | 20 B1 |
| HTML entity | ₱ |
| HTML numeric | ₱ or ₱ |
| CSS | \20B1 |
| JavaScript | \u20B1 |
| Python | \u20B1 |
| URL-encoded | %E2%82%B1 |
| SVG | 20B1.svg · (SIL Open Font License) |
If ₱ arrives as ₱
One character has become three, which is what a three-byte UTF-8 sequence looks like when each byte is read separately: E2 82 B1 read as Windows-1252 gives exactly ₱. The text is intact and the damage is in the reading, so setting the reader to UTF-8 restores it and retyping does not. A rectangle instead of the mojibake means the opposite: the encoding is right and the font has no glyph at U+20B1, which for a character this far outside Latin-1 is common in older office fonts.