U+0072 "r" Latin Small Letter R Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

r

U+0072 "r" Latin Small Letter R is the standard lowercase representation of the twentieth letter in the English alphabet, derived from the Latin script. In the Unicode standard, it resides within the Basic Latin block (range U+0000 to U+007F), which corresponds directly to the original ASCII encoding. This character is widely used across numerous languages, including English, French, Spanish, and German, to represent the alveolar or uvular rhotic consonant sound, depending on the linguistic context. Programmatically, it is a common text component in digital communication, file systems, and coding, where it often appears as part of variable names, identifiers, or string data. Its simplicity and ubiquity make it a fundamental building block for written human language in electronic form.

General Properties

Code Point U+0072
Version Added 1.1
Name Latin Small Letter R
Block Basic Latin
General Category Lowercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding r
HTML Hex Encoding r
UTF-8 Encoding 0x72
UTF-16 Encoding 0x0072
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00000072
C/C++/Java Escape \u0072

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Alphabetic
East Asian Width Narrow
Lowercase Yes
Simple Uppercase Code Point "R" U+0052 Latin Capital Letter R
Simple Titlecase Code Point "R" U+0052 Latin Capital Letter R
Uppercase Code Point "R" U+0052 Latin Capital Letter R
Titlecase Code Point "R" U+0052 Latin Capital Letter R
Cased Yes
Changes When Casemapped Yes
Changes When Titlecased Yes
Changes When Uppercased Yes
Script Latin
Script Extensions Latin
Indic Syllabic Category Other
ID Start Yes
XID Start Yes
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Rotated
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Other
Word Break Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break Lower