U+01A6 "Ʀ" Latin Letter Yr Unicode Character

U+01A6 "Ʀ" Latin Letter Yr is a typographic symbol used in the International Phonetic Alphabet to represent a uvular trill or a voiced uvular fricative, which is the sound found in the French "r" or the German "Zäpfchen-R." Its name comes from its visual resemblance to a small capital "R" and its phonetic association with the uvular "r" sound. This character appears in some Latin-based orthographies for certain African and Indigenous languages, where it denotes a similar uvular or guttural pronunciation distinct from the standard alveolar trill. As part of the Unicode standard, it ensures consistent digital representation of this specific linguistic sound across different computing platforms and font systems.