Ŕ

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Ŕ U+0154, Ŕ
LATIN CAPITAL LETTER R WITH ACUTE
Composition:R [U+0052] + ◌́ [U+0301]
œ
[U+0153]
Latin Extended-A ŕ
[U+0155]

Basque[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Coined by Sabino Arana.

Pronunciation[edit]

Letter[edit]

Ŕ (upper case, lower case ŕ)

  1. (obsolete) The letter R with an acute accent.

Usage notes[edit]

  • 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 In the standard orthography, it has been replaced by r in syllable-final positions and by rr between vowels.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[edit]

Lower Sorbian[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Letter[edit]

Ŕ (lower case ŕ)

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

Usage notes[edit]

As the letter ⟨ŕ⟩ is never the first letter of a word, the upper case form appears only when a word is written in ALL CAPS.

See also[edit]