r

Unicode name	LATIN SMALL LETTER R
Codepoint	U+0072
q ← Basic Latin → s

See also R, г, and Appendix:Variations of "r"

Translingual

Wikipedia

Etymology 1

Modification of capital letter R by not closing the bottom of the loop but continuing into the leg to save a pen stroke, later shortening the right leg into a simple arc.

Letter

r lower case (upper case R)

1. The eighteenth letter of the basic modern Latin alphabet.

See also

• (Latin script):  Aa  Bb  Cc  Dd  Ee  Ff  Gg  Hh  Ii  Jj  Kk  Ll  Mm  Nn  Oo  Pp  Qq  Rr  Ss  Tt  Uu  Vv  Ww  Xx  Yy  Zz
• (Variations of letter R):  Ŕŕ  Řř  Ṙṙ  Ŗŗ  Ȑȑ  Ȓȓ  Ṛṛ  Ṝṝ  Ṟṟ  Ɍɍ  Ɽɽ  ᵲ  ᶉ  ɼ  ɾ  ᵳ  ʀ  Ｒｒ
• (select symbols) ® ℝ ɻ r̃
• (other scripts) Cyrillic р (r) я (ja), Greek ρ (r, “rho”), Hebrew ר (r, “resh”), Hangeul ㄹ (r, “rieul”)
• dog's letter

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• IPA

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Symbol

Wikipedia

r

1. (engineering, geometry) radius
2. (IPA) alveolar trill
3. (phonetics) used in several romanization systems of non-Latin scripts to represent an various other rhotic sounds (IPA: /r/).

See also

Other representations of R:

• Letter styles
• 

  Capital and lowercase versions of R, in normal and italic type

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  Uppercase and lowercase R in Fraktur

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English

Etymology 1

Old English lower case letter r, from 7th century replacement by Latin lower case r of the Anglo-Saxon Futhorc letter ᚱ.

Pronunciation

• (letter name): (non-rhotic) IPA: /ɑ(ɹ)/, (rhotic) IPA: /ɑɹ/
• (phoneme): (non-rhotic) IPA: /ɹ/ or a lengthening of the previous vowel, (rhotic) IPA: /ɹ/

Audio (UK)

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Audio (US)

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Letter

r lowercase (uppercase R)

1. The eighteenth letter of the English alphabet, called ar and written in the Latin script.

See also

• (Latin script letters) letter; Aa, Bb, Cc, Dd, Ee, Ff, Gg, Hh, Ii, Jj, Kk, Ll, Mm, Nn, Oo, Pp, Qq, Rr, Ss, Tt, Uu, Vv, Ww, Xx, Yy, Zz ^[edit]

Number

r lower case (upper case R)

1. The ordinal number eighteenth, derived from this letter of the English alphabet, called ar and written in the Latin script.

Etymology 2

From are, pronounced like the name of the letter r

Verb

r

1. (text messaging, slang) are.

   How r u — “How are you?”

Translations

text messaging: are

Italian: 6 (it)

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Azeri

Letter

r lower case (upper case R)

1. The twenty-fourth letter of the Azeri alphabet, written in the Latin script.

See also

• (Latin script letters) hərf; Aa, Bb, Cc, Çç, Dd, Ee, Əə, Ff, Gg, Ğğ, Hh, Xx, Iı, İi, Jj, Kk, Qq, Ll, Mm, Nn, Oo, Öö, Pp, Rr, Ss, Şş, Tt, Uu, Üü, Vv, Yy, Zz ^[edit]

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Dutch

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɛr
• (letter name): IPA: /ɛr/

Letter

r (lower case, upper case R)

1. The eighteenth letter of the Dutch alphabet.

See also

• Previous letter: q
• Next letter: s

See also

• 'r

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Esperanto

Pronunciation

• Audio

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Letter

r lower case (upper case R)

1. The twenty-first letter of the Esperanto alphabet, called ro or ar and written in the Latin script.

See also

• (Latin script letters) litero; Aa, Bb, Cc, Ĉĉ, Dd, Ee, Ff, Gg, Ĝĝ, Hh, Ĥĥ, Ii, Jj, Ĵĵ, Kk, Ll, Mm, Nn, Oo, Pp, Rr, Ss, Ŝŝ, Tt, Uu, Ŭŭ, Vv, Zz ^[edit]

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Italian

Noun

r m. and f. inv.

1. See under R

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Mandarin

Romanization

r

1. 兒, 儿:

References

• Wenlin Pinyin dictionary
• erhua on Wikipedia.Wikipedia:erhua

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Portuguese

Pronunciation

• Audio (BR)

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Letter

r lower case (upper case R)

1. The eighteenth letter of the Portuguese alphabet, called erre and written in the Latin script.
   1. This letter may be present at the end of syllables and words.
      • 2003, Lya Wyler (translator), J. K. Rowling (English author), Harry Potter e a Ordem da Fênix (Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix), Rocco, page 75:

        Não o perdoou por abandonar o serviço em vez de seguir você.

        She didn't forgive him for abandoning his service instead of following you.

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Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA: /re/, /er/

Letter

r (lowercase, capital R)

1. The twentieth letter of the Romanian alphabet representing the phoneme /r/. Preceded by p and followed by s.

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Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

• (uppercase) R

Pronunciation

• (phoneme) IPA: /r/

Letter

r (Cyrillic spelling р)

1. The 23rd letter of the Serbo-Croatian Latin alphabet (gajica), preceded by p and followed by s.

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Spanish

Letter

r (lower case, upper case R)

1. The 19th letter of the Spanish alphabet.

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Turkish

Letter

r lower case (upper case R)

1. The twenty-first letter of the Turkish alphabet, called re and written in the Latin script.

See also

• (Latin script letters) harf; Aa, Bb, Cc, Çç, Dd, Ee, Ff, Gg, Ğğ, Hh, Iı, İi, Jj, Kk, Ll, Mm, Nn, Oo, Öö, Pp, Rr, Ss, Şş, Tt, Uu, Üü, Vv, Yy, Zz ^[edit]