U+AB4C "ꭌ" Latin Small Letter Script R with Ring Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꭌ
U+AB4C "ꭌ" Latin Small Letter Script R with Ring is a specialized typographic symbol found within the Latin Extended-E block, used primarily for phonetic transcription in certain linguistic contexts. It represents a variant of the script 'r' character, distinguished by the addition of a diacritical ring placed above it, which modifies the sound value in notation systems such as those employed by some Indigenous languages or the International Phonetic Alphabet extensions. This character is relatively uncommon in modern digital typography but serves a precise documentation purpose for representing specific rhotic sounds, contributing to the accurate recording of phonetic distinctions in scholarly and language preservation work.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+AB4C |
| Version Added | 7.0 |
| Name | Latin Small Letter Script R with Ring |
| Block | Latin Extended-E |
| General Category | Lowercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꭌ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꭌ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xAD 0x8C |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xAB4C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000AB4C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uab4c |