U+0213 "ȓ" Latin Small Letter R with Inverted Breve Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+0213 "ȓ" Latin Small Letter R with Inverted Breve is a specialized Latin letter that combines a standard lowercase "r" with an inverted breve diacritic, a small curved mark placed above the character. This symbol is primarily employed in linguistic and phonetic transcription to represent a specific sound or tonal nuance, often indicating a short, nondistinctive, or reduced pronunciation of the consonant in certain scholarly notations. While not common in standard orthographies, it appears in some academic texts studying Slavic or Baltic languages, as well as in historical or dialectal writing systems, where the inverted breve serves to denote a short or fleeting articulation of the rhotic sound.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0213 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Small Letter R with Inverted Breve |
| Block | Latin Extended-B |
| 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+0311 Combining Inverted Breve |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ȓ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ȓ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xC8 0x93 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0213 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000213 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0213 |
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 | "Ȓ" U+0212 Latin Capital Letter R with Inverted Breve |
| Simple Titlecase Code Point | "Ȓ" U+0212 Latin Capital Letter R with Inverted Breve |
| Uppercase Code Point | "Ȓ" U+0212 Latin Capital Letter R with Inverted Breve |
| Titlecase Code Point | "Ȓ" U+0212 Latin Capital Letter R with Inverted Breve |
| 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 |