The symbol representing the Philippine peso is ₱. It is a Latin letter P crossed by two horizontal strokes and is used to distinguish the Philippine peso in prices, financial documents and everyday writing.
The Philippine peso sign was added to Unicode as U+20B1, allowing it to be represented consistently in digital text. The symbol resembles signs used for other peso currencies, but its distinctive form identifies the Philippines.
The peso itself is divided into 100 sentimos. The word peso reflects the Spanish monetary heritage of the Philippines, which was part of the Spanish Empire for more than three centuries. A common mix-up is confusing ₱ with ₹, the symbol for India’s rupee, or ₽, the symbol for Russia’s ruble.