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Latin small capital reversed R
Usage
Writing systemLatin script
Sound values[] [ʀ̥] [ʢ]
History
Sisters
This page contains phonetic transcriptions in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). For an introductory guide on IPA symbols, see Help:IPA. For the distinction between [ ], / / and ⟨ ⟩, see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters.

(Latin) (letter) small capital reversed R (ᴙ, lowercase only) is a letter of the Latin script.[1] It is based off of a reversed small capital version of the Latin letter R. It is similar in appearance to the Cyrillic letter Я я, but is distinct from it. [2]

This letter is only used in phonetics, and that could be the reason it is lowercase only, It is also encoded in Unicode under the block "Phonetic Extensions". [3]

Small capital reversed n

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There is also a similar character small capital reversed n (ᴎ ᴻ, lowercase and superscript only), which is used in the Finno-Ugric transcription to represent the voiceless velar nasal [2] /ŋ̊/, which is similar to the pronunciation of the ng in the word anything, but voiceless. It looks similar to the Cyrillic letter И и.

History

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In the Finno-Ugric transcription, rotated letters indicate reduced sounds, such as shorter vowels. Small capital letters denote voicelessness. However, ɹ is already used for the alveolar approximant in the IPA and couldn't be used for a reduced alveolar trill, while is used for a devoiced alveolar approximant in the Finno-Ugric transcription, so mirroring is used as a last-resort substitute for rotation.

Credit to [4] for this sentence.

Usage

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The small capital reversed R (ᴙ) symbol has the following uses.

Phonetics (rare)

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It is possible that it is rarely used in phonetics for an epiglottal trill,[5] although this usage seems to be not well-documented.

Finno-Ugric transcription

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It is used in the Finno-Ugric transcription to represent a weakly trilled [r] [2] [5] (approximately [r͉] in the (ext)IPA).

Obsolete IPA

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It was used in the International Phonetic Alphabet for a voiceless uvular trill, it was withdrawn in 1912 and has been replaced by ⟨ʀ̥⟩.[5]

The replacement symbol ⟨ʀ̥⟩ is a diacritic combination of the symbol ⟨ʀ⟩ (a small capital r, representing the voiced uvular trill) and a ring diacritic ⟨◌̥⟩, which indicates voicelessness, and thus the IPA no longer has a dedicated symbol for the voiceless uvular trill.

Computing codes

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Character information
Preview
Unicode name LATIN LETTER
SMALL CAPITAL REVERSED R
Encodings decimal hex
Unicode 7449 U+1D19
UTF-8 225 180 153 E1 B4 99
Numeric character reference ᴙ ᴙ

More codes include: \u1D19 for C, JavaScript, JSON, and Java, \001D19 for CSS, \x{1D19} for Perl, \u1D19 for Python, \u{1D19} for Ruby, and %E1%B4%99 for URL Escape Code.[6]

To type "ᴙ" in Windows, hold alt, type +, type 1D19, release alt. and to to type "ᴙ" in Linux, hold ctrl+shift, type U 1D19, release ctrl+shift. [7]

See also

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Notes

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References

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  1. ^ "Unicode Character "ᴙ"". Retrieved 2025-02-02.
  2. ^ a b c "Uralic Phonetic Alphabet characters for the UCS" (PDF). Retrieved 2025-03-25.
  3. ^ "Phonetic Extensions" (PDF). Retrieved 2025-02-02.
  4. ^ "What's all the history of the phonetic symbol ᴙ (not the cyrillic ya, but the Latin small capital reversed R)". Retrieved 2025-03-30.
  5. ^ a b c "ᴙ". Retrieved 2025-02-21.
  6. ^ "ᴙ latin letter small capital reversed r (U+1D19) @ Graphemica". Retrieved 2025-04-24.
  7. ^ "ᴙ U+1D19 LATIN LETTER SMALL CAPITAL REVERSED R". Retrieved 2025-04-12.