U+0156 "Ŗ" Latin Capital Letter R with Cedilla Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
Ŗ
U+0156 "Ŗ" Latin Capital Letter R with Cedilla is a modified version of the standard Latin letter R, distinguished by a small cedilla mark attached beneath it. This character is primarily used in the Latvian language alphabet, where it represents a palatalized or soft "r" sound in phonetic transcription, and it also appears in certain systems for transliterating other languages, such as Livonian. In Unicode, it is part of the Latin Extended-A block and is the capital form of its lowercase counterpart, ŗ (U+0157). When rendering text, the cedilla may be placed directly underneath the R or slightly offset depending on the font design, but it always serves to modify the letter's pronunciation.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0156 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Capital Letter R with Cedilla |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Latin Capital Letter R Cedilla |
| 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+0327 Combining Cedilla |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ŗ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ŗ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xC5 0x96 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0156 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000156 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0156 |
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 | "ŗ" U+0157 Latin Small Letter R with Cedilla |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ŗ" U+0157 Latin Small Letter R with Cedilla |
| Simple Case Folding | "ŗ" U+0157 Latin Small Letter R with Cedilla |
| Case Folding | "ŗ" U+0157 Latin Small Letter R with Cedilla |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ŗ" U+0157 Latin Small Letter R with Cedilla |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ŗ" U+0157 Latin Small Letter R with Cedilla |
| 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 |