ŕ

See also: Appendix:Variations of "r"

ŕ U+0155, ŕ LATIN SMALL LETTER R WITH ACUTE Composition: r [U+0072] + ◌́ [U+0301] ← Ŕ [U+0154] Latin Extended-A Ŗ → [U+0156]

Translingual

Letter

ŕ (upper case Ŕ)

1. The Devanagari letter ऋ in IAST transliteration.

Symbol

ŕ

1. (UPA) a palatalized r sound (IPA [rʲ]).

Basque

Etymology

Coined by Sabino Arana.

Pronunciation

• (phoneme) IPA^(key): /r/

Letter

ŕ (lower case, upper case Ŕ)

1. (obsolete) A letter of the Basque alphabet.

Usage notes

• In Sabino Arana's orthography, it was used for the trill consonant. In the standard orthography, it has been replaced by ⟨r⟩ in syllable-final positions and by ⟨rr⟩ between vowels.

See also

• (Latin-script letters) A a, B b, C c (Ç ç), D d, E e, F f, G g, H h, I i, J j, K k, L l, M m, N n, Ñ ñ, O o, P p, Q q, R r, S s, T t, U u (Ü ü), V v, W w, X x, Y y, Z z

Brahui

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɽ/

Letter

ŕ (uppercase Ŕ)

1. A letter of the Brahui Latin alphabet. Its analog in Arabic script is ڑ.

Lower Sorbian

Alternative forms

• ṙ (obsolete)

Pronunciation

• (phoneme) IPA^(key): /rʲ/

Letter

ŕ (upper case Ŕ)

1. The twenty-fourth letter of the Lower Sorbian alphabet, called ejŕ and written in the Latin script.

Usage notes

Replaced by the digraph rj before a vowel, e.g. nominative faraŕ → genitive fararja.

See also

• (Latin-script letters) pismik; A a, B b, C c, Č č, Ć ć, D d, E e, Ě ě, F f, G g, H h, Ch ch, I i, J j, K k, Ł ł, L l, M m, N n, Ń ń, O o (Ó ó), P p, R r, Ŕ ŕ, S s, Š š, Ś ś, T t, U u, W w, Y y, Z z, Ž ž, Ź ź
• (obsolete letters) B́ b́, Ė ė, Ḿ ḿ, Ṕ ṕ, ſ, ß, Ꞩ ẜ, Ẃ ẃ

Slovak

Pronunciation

• (phoneme) IPA^(key): /r̩ː/

Letter

ŕ (upper case Ŕ)

1. The thirty-third letter of the Slovak alphabet, written in the Latin script.

See also

• (Latin-script letters) písmeno; A a, Á á, Ä ä, B b, C c, Č č, D d, Ď ď, Dz dz, Dž dž, E e, É é, F f, G g, H h, Ch ch, I i, Í í, J j, K k, L l, Ĺ ĺ, Ľ ľ, M m, N n, Ň ň, O o, Ó ó, Ô ô, P p, Q q, R r, Ŕ ŕ, S s, Š š, T t, Ť ť, U u, Ú ú, V v, W w, X x, Y y, Ý ý, Z z, Ž ž

Further reading

• “ŕ”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2025