U+0931 "ऱ" Devanagari Letter Rra Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ऱ
U+0931 "ऱ" Devanagari Letter Rra is a rare or marginal consonant used primarily for transliterating specific sounds from other scripts and languages, such as the Arabic letter 'Ra' (ر) or the Dravidian retroflex flap /ɽ/ in some scholarly or liturgical texts within the Devanagari writing system. It is not commonly found in standard Hindi or Sanskrit orthography, where the regular Devanagari letter "र" (ra) is typically employed, making its appearance mostly limited to specialized linguistic transcription or to represent sounds in languages like Marathi or Konkani that distinguish this flap sound.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0931 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Devanagari Letter Rra |
| Block | Devanagari |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "र" U+0930 Devanagari Letter Ra "़" U+093C Devanagari Sign Nukta |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ऱ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ऱ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xA4 0xB1 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0931 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000931 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0931 |