U+0212 "Ȓ" Latin Capital Letter R with Inverted Breve Unicode Character
U+0212 "Ȓ" Latin Capital Letter R with Inverted Breve is a specialized typographic symbol used primarily in Latin script-based phonetic transcription and certain orthographic systems, notably in the representation of some Slavic and Baltic languages. It combines the standard uppercase Latin letter "R" with an inverted breve diacritic above it, which typically indicates a short or extra-short pronunciation or a specific prosodic feature like reduced vowel quality in the consonant's vicinity. This character is part of the Latin Extended-A block in the Unicode standard and is distinct from the more common caron or breve marks, serving a narrow but important role in linguistic documentation and academic texts where precise phonetic distinctions are required.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0212 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Capital Letter R with Inverted Breve |
| Block | Latin Extended-B |
| 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+0311 Combining Inverted Breve |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ȓ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ȓ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xC8 0x92 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0212 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000212 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0212 |
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 | "ȓ" U+0213 Latin Small Letter R with Inverted Breve |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ȓ" U+0213 Latin Small Letter R with Inverted Breve |
| Simple Case Folding | "ȓ" U+0213 Latin Small Letter R with Inverted Breve |
| Case Folding | "ȓ" U+0213 Latin Small Letter R with Inverted Breve |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ȓ" U+0213 Latin Small Letter R with Inverted Breve |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ȓ" U+0213 Latin Small Letter R with Inverted Breve |
| 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 |