U+0281 "ʁ" Latin Letter Small Capital Inverted R Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ʁ
U+0281 "ʁ" Latin Letter Small Capital Inverted R is a typographic symbol used primarily in the International Phonetic Alphabet to represent the voiced uvular fricative, a sound produced by constricting airflow in the back of the throat near the uvula and found in languages such as French, German, and Hebrew. It is shaped like a small capital letter R that has been flipped vertically, distinguishing it from the similar-looking but different phonetic symbol ʀ, which denotes a uvular trill. This character is part of the IPA Extensions block in Unicode and is essential for linguistic transcription and phonetic analysis.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0281 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Letter Small Capital Inverted R |
| Block | IPA Extensions |
| General Category | Lowercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ʁ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ʁ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xCA 0x81 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0281 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000281 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0281 |