U+1E5F "ṟ" Latin Small Letter R with Line Below Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+1E5F "ṟ" Latin Small Letter R with Line Below is a grapheme used primarily in the transliteration of certain languages and alphabets, most notably in the transcription of Sanskrit and other Indic scripts where it represents a retroflex or hard r sound. The diacritical mark, a line placed beneath the letter, distinguishes it from a standard "r" and signals a specific phonetic quality that is critical for accurate linguistic representation. Although it is not a common character in everyday English or most Western European languages, it appears in scholarly works, dictionaries, and language learning materials focused on Dravidian, Indo-Aryan, or other language families that require precise consonant notation.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1E5F |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Small Letter R with Line Below |
| Block | Latin Extended Additional |
| General Category | Lowercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "r" U+0072 Latin Small Letter R "̱" U+0331 Combining Macron Below |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ṟ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ṟ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xB9 0x9F |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1E5F |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001E5F |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1e5f |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKC Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Alphabetic |
| Lowercase | Yes |
| Simple Uppercase Code Point | "Ṟ" U+1E5E Latin Capital Letter R with Line Below |
| Simple Titlecase Code Point | "Ṟ" U+1E5E Latin Capital Letter R with Line Below |
| Uppercase Code Point | "Ṟ" U+1E5E Latin Capital Letter R with Line Below |
| Titlecase Code Point | "Ṟ" U+1E5E Latin Capital Letter R with Line Below |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Titlecased | Yes |
| Changes When Uppercased | Yes |
| 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 | Lower |