U+0440 "р" Cyrillic Small Letter Er Unicode Character

U+0440 "р" Cyrillic Small Letter Er is a letter in the Cyrillic alphabet that represents the voiced alveolar trill sound, similar to the English "r" in words like "run." It is the eighteenth letter in the modern Russian alphabet and is commonly used in many Slavic languages such as Bulgarian, Serbian, and Ukrainian. Visually, it is identical in shape to the Latin lowercase "p," which often causes confusion in cross-script typography and text recognition. This character is encoded in the Cyrillic block of Unicode and has been part of the standard since the earliest versions, serving as a fundamental element for writing and reading in Cyrillic-based scripts.