Rha (Cyrillic)

Rha (Ԗ ԗ; italics: Ԗ ԗ) is a letter of the Cyrillic script. It looks like a cross-digraph of the Cyrillic letters Er (Р р) and Kha (Х х), but it is not a composable ligature.

Rha
Usage
Writing system	Cyrillic
Type	Alphabetic
Sound values	/r̥/
This article contains phonetic transcriptions in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). For an introductory guide on IPA symbols, see Help:IPA. For the distinction between [ ], / / and ⟨ ⟩, see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters.

Rha was used in the alphabet used in the 1920s for the Moksha language, where it represented the voiceless alveolar trill /r̥/, like the rh in Welsh.^[1]

Character information

Preview	Ԗ		ԗ
Unicode name	CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER RHA		CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER RHA
Encodings	decimal	hex	dec	hex
Unicode	1302	U+0516	1303	U+0517
UTF-8	212 150	D4 96	212 151	D4 97
Numeric character reference	Ԗ	Ԗ	ԗ	ԗ

See also

• Р̌ р̌ : Cyrillic letter Er with caron
• Ҏ ҏ : Cyrillic letter Er with tick
• Cyrillic characters in Unicode