U+1E5B Latin Small Letter R with Dot Below
U+1E5B was added in Unicode version 1.1 in 1993. It belongs to the block Latin Extended Additional in the Basic Multilingual Plane.
This character is a Lowercase Letter and is mainly used in the Latin script. Its uppercase variant is Latin Capital Letter R with Dot Below and its titlecase variant is Latin Capital Letter R with Dot Below.
The glyph is a canonical composition of the glyphs Latin Small Letter R, Combining Dot Below. 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+1E5B forms with similar adjacent characters prevents a line break inside it.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
Ṛ (minuscule: ṛ) is a letter of the Latin alphabet, formed from R with the addition of a dot below the letter. It is used in the transliteration of Afro-Asiatic languages to represent an "emphatic r". It is used in transliterating Indo-Aryan and East Iranian languages to represent either syllabic r or a retroflex flap.
In the International Alphabet of Sanskrit Transliteration used for Sanskrit and related languages, ṛ represents a syllabic r. In transliterations of modern Indo-Aryan languages using ISO 15919 or similar schemes, ṛ represents a retroflex flap /ɽ/.
Superscript Ṛ was widely used in 19th and early 20th century English in abbreviations of month and personal names, such as in NOVṚ, DECṚ, and ALEXṚ (Alexander). Particularly common on gravestones.
Representations
| System | Representation |
|---|---|
| Nº | 7771 |
| UTF-8 | E1 B9 9B |
| UTF-16 | 1E 5B |
| UTF-32 | 00 00 1E 5B |
| URL-Quoted | %E1%B9%9B |
| HTML hex reference | ṛ |
| Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | á¹› |
| Encoding: GB18030 (hex bytes) | 81 35 F7 35 |
| AGL: Latin-4 | uni1E5B |
| AGL: Latin-5 | uni1E5B |
| Adobe Glyph List | rdotbelow |
| digraph | r-. |
Related Characters
Elsewhere
Complete Record
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| 1.1 (1993) | |
| LATIN SMALL LETTER R WITH DOT BELOW | |
| — | |
| Latin Extended Additional | |
| Lowercase Letter | |
| Latin | |
| Left To Right | |
| Not Reordered | |
| canonical | |
| Latin Small Letter R Combining Dot Below | |
| ✔︎ | |
| Latin Small Letter R with Dot Below | |
| Latin Small Letter R with Dot Below | |
| ✘︎ | |
| Latin Capital Letter R with Dot Below | |
| Latin Capital Letter R with Dot Below | |
| Latin Capital Letter R with Dot Below | |
| Latin Capital Letter R with Dot Below | |
| Latin Small Letter R with Dot Below | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✔︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✔︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✔︎ | |
| ✔︎ | |
| ✔︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| Latin Small Letter R with Dot Below | |
| Any | |
| ✔︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✔︎ | |
| ✔︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| ✘︎ | |
| None | |
| — | |
| NA | |
| Other | |
| — | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| Yes | |
| No | |
| Latin Small Letter R with Dot Below | |
| Yes | |
| Latin Small Letter R with Dot Below | |
| No | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| Lower | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| Alphabetic Letter | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✔︎ | |
| ✔︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✔︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✔︎ | |
| Latin Small Letter R with Dot Below | |
| None | |
| neutral | |
| Not Applicable | |
| — | |
| No_Joining_Group | |
| Non Joining | |
| Alphabetic | |
| none | |
| not a number | |
| Latin Small Letter R with Dot Below | |
| R |