U+027C "ɼ" Latin Small Letter R with Long Leg Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ɼ
U+027C "ɼ" Latin Small Letter R with Long Leg is a historical phonetic symbol used in early versions of the International Phonetic Alphabet to represent a voiced retroflex trill or a similar rhotic sound, characterized by its distinctive long, downward leg extending below the baseline. Although it was once part of the IPA, it is now considered obsolete and has been removed from the modern standard, though it remains encoded in Unicode for compatibility and scholarly reference.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+027C |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Small Letter R with Long Leg |
| Block | IPA Extensions |
| General Category | Lowercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ɼ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ɼ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xC9 0xBC |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x027C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000027C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u027c |