U+0159 "ř" Latin Small Letter R with Caron Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+0159 "ř" Latin Small Letter R with Caron is a modified letter used primarily in the Czech and Slovak alphabets, where it represents a voiced alveolar trill or fricative, often pronounced like the "rzh" sound in English "Zsa Zsa" but with a trilled quality. This character is derived from the standard Latin letter "r" combined with a caron diacritic above it, which typically indicates a palatalized or softened pronunciation in Slavic languages. In Unicode, it belongs to the Latin Extended-A block and is essential for proper spelling and meaning in words such as Czech "řeka" (river) or Slovak "dvere" (door), distinguishing it from the plain "r" in these writing systems.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0159 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Small Letter R with Caron |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Latin Small Letter R Hacek |
| 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+030C Combining Caron |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ř |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ř |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xC5 0x99 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0159 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000159 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0159 |
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 | "Ř" U+0158 Latin Capital Letter R with Caron |
| Simple Titlecase Code Point | "Ř" U+0158 Latin Capital Letter R with Caron |
| Uppercase Code Point | "Ř" U+0158 Latin Capital Letter R with Caron |
| Titlecase Code Point | "Ř" U+0158 Latin Capital Letter R with Caron |
| 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 |