U+A75A "Ꝛ" Latin Capital Letter R Rotunda Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
Ꝛ
U+A75A "Ꝛ" Latin Capital Letter R Rotunda is a historical typographic variant of the Latin letter R, characterized by a rounded, bow-like form that lacks the standard right leg, making it resemble a modified letter P. It was primarily used in medieval and early modern manuscripts, particularly in Insular scripts such as Old English and Irish, to represent the sound of a trilled or soft R, and it also served as an abbreviation in scribal shorthand for words like "rum" or "re" in Latin texts. Although it fell out of common use with the advent of printing presses, it has been encoded in Unicode to preserve historical and paleographic studies, allowing modern digital representation of these ancient scribal conventions.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A75A |
| Version Added | 5.1 |
| Name | Latin Capital Letter R Rotunda |
| Block | Latin Extended-D |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ꝛ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ꝛ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0x9D 0x9A |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA75A |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A75A |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua75a |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFD Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKD Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Alphabetic |
| Uppercase | Yes |
| Simple Lowercase Code Point | "ꝛ" U+A75B Latin Small Letter R Rotunda |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ꝛ" U+A75B Latin Small Letter R Rotunda |
| Simple Case Folding | "ꝛ" U+A75B Latin Small Letter R Rotunda |
| Case Folding | "ꝛ" U+A75B Latin Small Letter R Rotunda |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ꝛ" U+A75B Latin Small Letter R Rotunda |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ꝛ" U+A75B Latin Small Letter R Rotunda |
| 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 |