U+0155 "ŕ" Latin Small Letter R with Acute Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ŕ
U+0155 "ŕ" Latin Small Letter R with Acute is a precomposed character used in several European languages, including Slovak, Czech, and Sorbian, where it represents a specific palatalized or trilled 'r' sound distinct from a plain 'r'. It is formed by combining a base Latin small letter 'r' with an acute accent diacritic placed above it, and its uppercase counterpart is U+0154 "Ŕ". In typography and text encoding, this character ensures correct representation of words in those languages, such as the Slovak word for "mouth" (ústa) but with a different meaning when spelled with ŕ, and it is part of the Latin Extended-A block of Unicode, allowing for proper digital text processing and display.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0155 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Small Letter R with Acute |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Latin Small Letter R Acute |
| Block | Latin Extended-A |
| General Category | Lowercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "r" U+0072 Latin Small Letter R "́" U+0301 Combining Acute Accent |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ŕ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ŕ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xC5 0x95 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0155 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000155 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0155 |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKC Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Alphabetic |
| Lowercase | Yes |
| Simple Uppercase Code Point | "Ŕ" U+0154 Latin Capital Letter R with Acute |
| Simple Titlecase Code Point | "Ŕ" U+0154 Latin Capital Letter R with Acute |
| Uppercase Code Point | "Ŕ" U+0154 Latin Capital Letter R with Acute |
| Titlecase Code Point | "Ŕ" U+0154 Latin Capital Letter R with Acute |
| 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 |