U+02B4 "ʴ" Modifier Letter Small Turned R Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+02B4 "ʴ" Modifier Letter Small Turned R is a typographic symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet used to indicate a specific voiced, post-alveolar, or retroflex approximant, often representing a rough r-like sound in linguistic transcriptions. It appears as a lowercase rotated r and functions as a diacritic modifier, subtly altering the pronunciation of a base letter to which it is attached, typically in studies of phonetics, language documentation, or speech pathology.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+02B4 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Modifier Letter Small Turned R |
| Block | Spacing Modifier Letters |
| General Category | Modifier Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Super |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ɹ" U+0279 Latin Small Letter Turned R |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ʴ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ʴ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xCA 0xB4 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x02B4 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000002B4 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u02b4 |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFD Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Alphabetic |
| Lowercase | Yes |
| Other Lowercase | Yes |
| Case Ignorable | Yes |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ɹ" U+0279 Latin Small Letter Turned R |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ɹ" U+0279 Latin Small Letter Turned R |
| Script | Latin |
| Script Extensions | Latin |
| Indic Syllabic Category | Other |
| ID Start | Yes |
| XID Start | Yes |
| ID Continue | Yes |
| XID Continue | Yes |
| Diacritic | Yes |
| Alphabetic | Yes |
| Vertical Orientation | Rotated |
| Grapheme Base | Yes |
| Grapheme Cluster Break | Other |
| Word Break | Alphabetic letter |
| Sentence Break | Lower |