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Glyph for U+0159
Source: Noto Sans

U+0159 Latin Small Letter R with Caron

U+0159 was added in Unicode version 1.1 in 1993. It belongs to the block U+0100 to U+017F Latin Extended-A in the U+0000 to U+FFFF Basic Multilingual Plane.

This character is a Lowercase Letter and is mainly used in the Latin script. Its uppercase variant is Glyph for U+0158 Latin Capital Letter R with Caron and its titlecase variant is Glyph for U+0158 Latin Capital Letter R with Caron.

The glyph is a canonical composition of the glyphs Glyph for U+0072 Latin Small Letter R, Glyph for U+030C Combining Caron. It has no designated width in East Asian texts. In bidirectional text it is written from left to right. When changing direction it is not mirrored. The word that U+0159 forms with similar adjacent characters prevents a line break inside it.

The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:

The grapheme Ř, ř (R with caron, example of Czech pronunciation: ) is a letter used in the alphabets of the Czech and Upper Sorbian languages. It was also used in proposed orthographies for the Silesian language. It has been used in academic transcriptions for rhotic sounds.

The Unicode glyphs are U+0158 Ř LATIN CAPITAL LETTER R WITH CARON and U+0159 ř LATIN SMALL LETTER R WITH CARON. Either can also be represented using the combining character U+030C  ̌  COMBINING CARON.

Representations

System Representation
345
UTF-8 C5 99
UTF-16 01 59
UTF-32 00 00 01 59
URL-Quoted %C5%99
HTML hex reference ř
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake Å™
HTML named entity ř
Encoding: CP852 (hex bytes) FD
Encoding: CP1250 (hex bytes) F8
Encoding: EUC_JP (hex bytes) 8F AB DA
Encoding: EUC_JIS_2004 (hex bytes) AA D4
Encoding: EUC_JISX0213 (hex bytes) AA D4
Encoding: GB18030 (hex bytes) 81 30 94 30
Encoding: ISO2022_JP_1 (hex bytes) 1B 24 28 44 2B 5A 1B 28 42
Encoding: ISO2022_JP_2 (hex bytes) 1B 24 28 44 2B 5A 1B 28 42
Encoding: ISO2022_JP_2004 (hex bytes) 1B 24 28 51 2A 54 1B 28 42
Encoding: ISO2022_JP_3 (hex bytes) 1B 24 28 4F 2A 54 1B 28 42
Encoding: ISO2022_JP_EXT (hex bytes) 1B 24 28 44 2B 5A 1B 28 42
Encoding: ISO8859_2 (hex bytes) F8
Encoding: MAC_LATIN2 (hex bytes) DE
Encoding: SHIFT_JIS_2004 (hex bytes) 85 D2
Encoding: SHIFT_JISX0213 (hex bytes) 85 D2
Encoding: CP870 (hex bytes) 8E
LATEX \v{r}
AGL: Latin-3 rcaron
AGL: Latin-4 rcaron
AGL: Latin-5 rcaron
Adobe Glyph List rcaron
digraph r<

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Complete Record

Property Value
Age (age) 1.1 (1993)
Unicode Name (na) LATIN SMALL LETTER R WITH CARON
Unicode 1 Name (na1) LATIN SMALL LETTER R HACEK
Block (blk) Latin Extended-A
General Category (gc) Lowercase Letter
Script (sc) Latin
Bidirectional Category (bc) Left To Right
Combining Class (ccc) Not Reordered
Decomposition Type (dt) canonical
Decomposition Mapping (dm) Glyph for U+0072 Latin Small Letter R Glyph for U+030C Combining Caron
Lowercase (Lower)
Simple Lowercase Mapping (slc) Glyph for U+0159 Latin Small Letter R with Caron
Lowercase Mapping (lc) Glyph for U+0159 Latin Small Letter R with Caron
Uppercase (Upper)
Simple Uppercase Mapping (suc) Glyph for U+0158 Latin Capital Letter R with Caron
Uppercase Mapping (uc) Glyph for U+0158 Latin Capital Letter R with Caron
Simple Titlecase Mapping (stc) Glyph for U+0158 Latin Capital Letter R with Caron
Titlecase Mapping (tc) Glyph for U+0158 Latin Capital Letter R with Caron
Case Folding (cf) Glyph for U+0159 Latin Small Letter R with Caron
ASCII Hex Digit (AHex)
Alphabetic (Alpha)
Bidi Control (Bidi_C)
Bidi Mirrored (Bidi_M)
Composition Exclusion (CE)
Case Ignorable (CI)
Changes When Casefolded (CWCF)
Changes When Casemapped (CWCM)
Changes When NFKC Casefolded (CWKCF)
Changes When Lowercased (CWL)
Changes When Titlecased (CWT)
Changes When Uppercased (CWU)
Cased (Cased)
Full Composition Exclusion (Comp_Ex)
Default Ignorable Code Point (DI)
Dash (Dash)
Deprecated (Dep)
Diacritic (Dia)
Emoji Modifier Base (EBase)
Emoji Component (EComp)
Emoji Modifier (EMod)
Emoji Presentation (EPres)
Emoji (Emoji)
Extender (Ext)
Extended Pictographic (ExtPict)
FC NFKC Closure (FC_NFKC) Glyph for U+0159 Latin Small Letter R with Caron
Grapheme Cluster Break (GCB) Any
Grapheme Base (Gr_Base)
Grapheme Extend (Gr_Ext)
Grapheme Link (Gr_Link)
Hex Digit (Hex)
Hyphen (Hyphen)
ID Continue (IDC)
ID Start (IDS)
IDS Binary Operator (IDSB)
IDS Trinary Operator and (IDST)
IDSU (IDSU) 0
ID_Compat_Math_Continue (ID_Compat_Math_Continue) 0
ID_Compat_Math_Start (ID_Compat_Math_Start) 0
Ideographic (Ideo)
InCB (InCB) None
Indic Mantra Category (InMC)
Indic Positional Category (InPC) NA
Indic Syllabic Category (InSC) Other
Jamo Short Name (JSN)
Join Control (Join_C)
Logical Order Exception (LOE)
Modifier Combining Mark (MCM)
Math (Math)
Noncharacter Code Point (NChar)
NFC Quick Check (NFC_QC) Yes
NFD Quick Check (NFD_QC) No
NFKC Casefold (NFKC_CF) Glyph for U+0159 Latin Small Letter R with Caron
NFKC Quick Check (NFKC_QC) Yes
NFKC_SCF (NFKC_SCF) Glyph for U+0159 Latin Small Letter R with Caron
NFKD Quick Check (NFKD_QC) No
Other Alphabetic (OAlpha)
Other Default Ignorable Code Point (ODI)
Other Grapheme Extend (OGr_Ext)
Other ID Continue (OIDC)
Other ID Start (OIDS)
Other Lowercase (OLower)
Other Math (OMath)
Other Uppercase (OUpper)
Prepended Concatenation Mark (PCM)
Pattern Syntax (Pat_Syn)
Pattern White Space (Pat_WS)
Quotation Mark (QMark)
Regional Indicator (RI)
Radical (Radical)
Sentence Break (SB) Lower
Soft Dotted (SD)
Sentence Terminal (STerm)
Terminal Punctuation (Term)
Unified Ideograph (UIdeo)
Variation Selector (VS)
Word Break (WB) Alphabetic Letter
White Space (WSpace)
XID Continue (XIDC)
XID Start (XIDS)
Expands On NFC (XO_NFC)
Expands On NFD (XO_NFD)
Expands On NFKC (XO_NFKC)
Expands On NFKD (XO_NFKD)
Bidi Paired Bracket (bpb) Glyph for U+0159 Latin Small Letter R with Caron
Bidi Paired Bracket Type (bpt) None
East Asian Width (ea) neutral
Hangul Syllable Type (hst) Not Applicable
ISO 10646 Comment (isc)
Joining Group (jg) No_Joining_Group
Joining Type (jt) Non Joining
Line Break (lb) Alphabetic
Numeric Type (nt) none
Numeric Value (nv) not a number
Simple Case Folding (scf) Glyph for U+0159 Latin Small Letter R with Caron
Script Extension (scx)
Vertical Orientation (vo) R