U+027E "ɾ" Latin Small Letter R with Fishhook Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+027E "ɾ" Latin Small Letter R with Fishhook is a phonetic symbol used primarily in the International Phonetic Alphabet to represent a voiced alveolar tap or flap, a sound produced by a single quick strike of the tongue against the alveolar ridge, as heard in the American English pronunciation of "butter" or "ladder." This character resembles a lowercase "r" but with a distinctive hook or curve at the bottom, which distinguishes it from the standard trilled "r" and other rhotic sounds. It is encoded in the Unicode standard under the Latin Extended-B block, serving a crucial role in linguistic transcription, phonology, and language documentation across various disciplines that require precise representation of spoken language.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+027E |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Small Letter R with Fishhook |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Latin Small Letter Fishhook R |
| Block | IPA Extensions |
| General Category | Lowercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ɾ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ɾ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xC9 0xBE |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x027E |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000027E |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u027e |