U+1DF08 "𝼈" Latin Small Letter Turned R with Long Leg and Retroflex Hook Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𝼈
U+1DF08 "𝼈" Latin Small Letter Turned R with Long Leg and Retroflex Hook is a specialized phonetic symbol used in the extended International Phonetic Alphabet and certain linguistic transcription systems to represent a voiced retroflex approximant or a similar rhotic sound with a distinctive articulation. Its design combines a rotated lowercase 'r' with an elongated descending stroke and a retroflex hook, indicating a sound produced with the tongue curled back toward the palate. This character is part of the Latin Extended-G block and is intended for scholarly work in phonetics and orthographies for endangered languages, though it has limited support in common fonts and digital environments.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1DF08 |
| Version Added | 14.0 |
| Name | Latin Small Letter Turned R with Long Leg and Retroflex Hook |
| Block | Latin Extended-G |
| General Category | Lowercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𝼈 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𝼈 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x9D 0xBC 0x88 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD837 0xDF08 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001DF08 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud837\udf08 |