Ra (Armenian letter)

Ra (majuscule: Ռ; minuscule: ռ; Armenian: ռա) is the twenty-eighth letter of the Armenian alphabet. It represents the voiced alveolar trill (/r/) in Eastern Armenian and the voiced alveolar tap (/ɾ/) Western Armenian. Created by Mesrop Mashtots in the 5th century, it has a numerical value of 1000.^[1] Its shape is visually similar to the minuscule Latin letter N (n). Its shape in lowercase form is also similar to the majuscule form of the Greek letter Omega (Ω).

Ra
Ռ ռ
Usage
Writing system	Armenian script
Type	Alphabetic
Language of origin	Armenian language
Sound values	r, ɾ
In Unicode	U+054C, U+057C
Alphabetical position	28
History
Development	𓁶 𐤓 Ρ ρ Ռ ռ
Time period	405 to present
Other
Associated numbers	1000
Writing direction	Left-to-Right
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.

Gallery

Various historic fonts

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  Rounded Erkat'agir
• 
  Angular Erkat'agir
• 
  Bolorgir
• 
  Notrgir
• 
  Shghagir
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  Typographic form
• 
  Handwritten form

Computing codes

Character information

Preview	Ռ		ռ
Unicode name	ARMENIAN CAPITAL LETTER RA		ARMENIAN SMALL LETTER RA
Encodings	decimal	hex	dec	hex
Unicode	1356	U+054C	1404	U+057C
UTF-8	213 140	D5 8C	213 188	D5 BC
Numeric character reference	Ռ	Ռ	ռ	ռ

See also

• Armenian alphabet
• Mesrop Mashtots
• R (Latin)
• Ω (Greek)