U+0154 "Ŕ" Latin Capital Letter R with Acute Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
Ŕ
U+0154 "Ŕ" Latin Capital Letter R with Acute is a Latin script letter consisting of a standard uppercase R combined with an acute accent diacritic placed above it, primarily used in certain Central and Eastern European languages such as Slovak, where it appears in the word "Ŕha" as a distinct phoneme, and in the Romani language for specific phonetic representation. It is encoded in the Unicode Latin Extended-A block and serves as the uppercase counterpart to the lowercase "ŕ" (U+0155), with its primary function being to indicate a palatalized or stressed pronunciation of the R sound depending on linguistic context.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0154 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Capital Letter R with Acute |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Latin Capital Letter R Acute |
| Block | Latin Extended-A |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "R" U+0052 Latin Capital Letter R "́" U+0301 Combining Acute Accent |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ŕ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ŕ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xC5 0x94 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0154 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000154 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0154 |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKC Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Alphabetic |
| Uppercase | Yes |
| Simple Lowercase Code Point | "ŕ" U+0155 Latin Small Letter R with Acute |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ŕ" U+0155 Latin Small Letter R with Acute |
| Simple Case Folding | "ŕ" U+0155 Latin Small Letter R with Acute |
| Case Folding | "ŕ" U+0155 Latin Small Letter R with Acute |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ŕ" U+0155 Latin Small Letter R with Acute |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ŕ" U+0155 Latin Small Letter R with Acute |
| 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 | Upper |