U+027B "ɻ" Latin Small Letter Turned R with Hook Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ɻ
U+027B "ɻ" Latin Small Letter Turned R with Hook is an IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) symbol that represents a voiced retroflex approximant, a consonant sound produced by curling the tip of the tongue back toward the hard palate while allowing air to flow freely past it, similar to the English "r" in many rhotic dialects but with a more retracted articulation. This character is used in linguistic transcriptions to denote this specific sound found in languages such as certain varieties of Mandarin Chinese, Tamil, and some Indigenous Australian languages. It visually resembles a standard lowercase "r" that has been rotated 180 degrees, with a small hook added to the top right.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+027B |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Small Letter Turned R with Hook |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Latin Small Letter Turned R Hook |
| Block | IPA Extensions |
| General Category | Lowercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ɻ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ɻ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xC9 0xBB |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x027B |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000027B |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u027b |