U+1E5A "Ṛ" Latin Capital Letter R with Dot Below Unicode Character
U+1E5A "Ṛ" Latin Capital Letter R with Dot Below is a specialised glyph used primarily in the transliteration of Indic scripts, such as Devanagari, to represent the retroflex flap or approximant sound often transcribed as a hard "r" with a short, flapped articulation. It appears in scholarly works, dictionaries, and linguistic texts for languages like Sanskrit, Hindi, and Tamil, where the dot below distinguishes this retroflex consonant from its dental counterpart. The character is encoded in the Latin Extended Additional block and is typically rendered by adding a combining dot below (U+0323) to a standard capital letter R, though precomposed forms exist for compatibility. Its usage ensures precise phonetic representation in academic and digital contexts where accurate transliteration of South Asian languages is essential.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1E5A |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Capital Letter R with Dot Below |
| Block | Latin Extended Additional |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "R" U+0052 Latin Capital Letter R "̣" U+0323 Combining Dot Below |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ṛ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ṛ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xB9 0x9A |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1E5A |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001E5A |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1e5a |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKC Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Alphabetic |
| Uppercase | Yes |
| Simple Lowercase Code Point | "ṛ" U+1E5B Latin Small Letter R with Dot Below |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ṛ" U+1E5B Latin Small Letter R with Dot Below |
| Simple Case Folding | "ṛ" U+1E5B Latin Small Letter R with Dot Below |
| Case Folding | "ṛ" U+1E5B Latin Small Letter R with Dot Below |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ṛ" U+1E5B Latin Small Letter R with Dot Below |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ṛ" U+1E5B Latin Small Letter R with Dot Below |
| Script | Latin |
| Script Extensions | Latin |
| Indic Syllabic Category | Other |
| ID Start | Yes |
| XID Start | Yes |
| ID Continue | Yes |
| XID Continue | Yes |
| Alphabetic | Yes |
| Vertical Orientation | Rotated |
| Grapheme Base | Yes |
| Grapheme Cluster Break | Other |
| Word Break | Alphabetic letter |
| Sentence Break | Upper |