U+1D89 "ᶉ" Latin Small Letter R with Palatal Hook Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ᶉ
U+1D89 "ᶉ" Latin Small Letter R with Palatal Hook is a specialized typographic symbol used primarily in phonetic transcription, particularly within the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) extension block. It represents a voiced palatalized alveolar trill or approximant, where the palatal hook attached to the base letter "r" indicates a palatal secondary articulation, meaning the tongue is raised toward the hard palate during pronunciation. This character is utilized by linguists and speech researchers to document and analyze subtle sound variations in languages that feature palatalized rhotic consonants, such as certain Slavic or Indigenous American languages, ensuring precise written representation of spoken sounds.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1D89 |
| Version Added | 4.1 |
| Name | Latin Small Letter R with Palatal Hook |
| Block | Phonetic Extensions Supplement |
| General Category | Lowercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᶉ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᶉ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xB6 0x89 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1D89 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001D89 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1d89 |