ʳ

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ʳ U+02B3, ʳ
MODIFIER LETTER SMALL R
← ʲ
[U+02B2] 		Spacing Modifier Letters ʴ →
[U+02B4]

Translingual

Symbol

ʳ

  1. (IPA, deprecated) Used as a diacritic to represent:
    1. r-colouring (of a vowel)
    2. an r-offglide

Usage notes

This superscript symbol is deprecated[1] and is no longer the official standard for rhotacized vowels. ◌˞ (vowel with hook diacritic) is now the standard.

Further reading

Letter

ʳ

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

Usage notes

  • The Unicode Standard[2] recommends against the use of superscript modifier letters to represent stylistically superscript text.[3]

Derived terms

References

  1. ^ “The International Phonetic Alphabet (revised to 2015)”, in IPA Association‎[1], 2015, retrieved 6 August 2017
  2. ^ 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:
  3. ^ 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.
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