U+01A6 "Ʀ" Latin Letter Yr Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+01A6 "Ʀ" Latin Letter Yr is a typographic symbol used in the International Phonetic Alphabet to represent a uvular trill or a voiced uvular fricative, which is the sound found in the French "r" or the German "Zäpfchen-R." Its name comes from its visual resemblance to a small capital "R" and its phonetic association with the uvular "r" sound. This character appears in some Latin-based orthographies for certain African and Indigenous languages, where it denotes a similar uvular or guttural pronunciation distinct from the standard alveolar trill. As part of the Unicode standard, it ensures consistent digital representation of this specific linguistic sound across different computing platforms and font systems.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+01A6 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Letter Yr |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Latin Letter Y R |
| Block | Latin Extended-B |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ʀ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ʀ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xC6 0xA6 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x01A6 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000001A6 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u01a6 |
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 |
| Uppercase | Yes |
| Simple Lowercase Code Point | "ʀ" U+0280 Latin Letter Small Capital R |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ʀ" U+0280 Latin Letter Small Capital R |
| Simple Case Folding | "ʀ" U+0280 Latin Letter Small Capital R |
| Case Folding | "ʀ" U+0280 Latin Letter Small Capital R |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ʀ" U+0280 Latin Letter Small Capital R |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ʀ" U+0280 Latin Letter Small Capital R |
| 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 |