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Ŕ (minuscule:ŕ) is a letter of theLower Sorbian andSlovak alphabets,Ukrainian Latin alphabet andProto-Turkic orthography. It is formed fromR with the addition of anacute. TheirUnicode codepoints areU+0154 ŔLATIN CAPITAL LETTER R WITH ACUTE (Ŕ) andU+0155 ŕLATIN SMALL LETTER R WITH ACUTE (ŕ). The PostScript names are Racute and racute.
InSlovak⟨ŕ⟩ is used to represent/r̩ː/, thegeminatesyllabicalveolar trill.
It is used inLower Sorbian to represent/rʲ/, thepalatalisedalveolar trill.
InSabino Arana's orthography[1] of theBasque language,⟨ŕ⟩ was used for the/r/ contrasting with⟨r⟩ which was used for/ɾ/.However, in the standardBasque alphabet,/r/ is represented with⟨r⟩ in syllable-final positions and⟨rr⟩ between vowels.
| Preview | Ŕ | ŕ | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unicode name | LATIN CAPITAL LETTER R WITH ACUTE | LATIN SMALL LETTER R WITH ACUTE | ||
| Encodings | decimal | hex | dec | hex |
| Unicode | 340 | U+0154 | 341 | U+0155 |
| UTF-8 | 197 148 | C5 94 | 197 149 | C5 95 |
| Numeric character reference | Ŕ | Ŕ | ŕ | ŕ |
| Named character reference | Ŕ | ŕ | ||