U+A75B "ꝛ" Latin Small Letter R Rotunda Unicode Character

U+A75B "ꝛ" Latin Small Letter R Rotunda is a historical glyph variant of the lowercase letter "r" that was used primarily in medieval and early modern manuscripts and typography, especially in Old English, Middle English, and other Western European languages. It features a distinctive rounded form lacking the usual stem, often appearing after vowels or rounded letters like "o" and "b" to improve visual flow in handwriting. Though obsolete in modern standard texts, it remains significant in paleography and historical linguistics for the study of original document transcription.

General Properties

Code Point	U+A75B
Version Added	5.1
Name	Latin Small Letter R Rotunda
Block	Latin Extended-D
General Category	Lowercase 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 0x9B
UTF-16 Encoding	0xA75B
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000A75B
C/C++/Java Escape	\ua75b

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
Lowercase	Yes
Simple Uppercase Code Point	"Ꝛ" U+A75A Latin Capital Letter R Rotunda
Simple Titlecase Code Point	"Ꝛ" U+A75A Latin Capital Letter R Rotunda
Uppercase Code Point	"Ꝛ" U+A75A Latin Capital Letter R Rotunda
Titlecase Code Point	"Ꝛ" U+A75A Latin Capital Letter R Rotunda
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