ʳ

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ʳ U+02B3, ʳ
MODIFIER LETTER SMALL R
ʲ
[U+02B2]
Spacing Modifier Letters ʴ
[U+02B4]
See also: [U+1D63 LATIN SUBSCRIPT SMALL LETTER R]

Translingual

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Symbol

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ʳ

  1. (IPA) alveolar trill release of a plosive (e.g. [dʳ], sometimes implying an affricate [d͜r]); or a weak, fleeting or epenthetic [r].
  2. (IPA, obsolete) [ɹ]-colouring of a vowel, or an [ɹ]-offglide of a vowel.

Usage notes

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Use of ⟨Vʳ⟩ for non-trilled rhotic vowels is obsolete. (vowel with hook diacritic) is now standard. See usage notes at ⟨ʴ⟩.

Further reading

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Letter

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ʳ

  1. (nonstandard, proscribed, chiefly where HTML-marking of superscription is unavailable) Used to represent a superscript r.

Usage notes

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  • The Unicode Standard[1] recommends against the use of superscript modifier letters to represent stylistically superscript text.[2]

Derived terms

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References

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  1. ^ Julie D. Allen et al. (editors), The Unicode Standard: Version 6.0 – Core Specification (February 2011, Unicode Consortium, →ISBN, chapter 7: “European Alphabetic Scripts”, § 7.8: ‘Modifier Letters’, page 229:
  2. ^ Superscript modifier letters are intended for cases where the letters carry a specific meaning, as in phonetic transcription systems, and are not a substitute for generic styling mechanisms for superscripting of text, as for footnotes, mathematical and chemical expressions, and the like.