U+1E5A "Ṛ" Latin Capital Letter R with Dot Below Unicode Character

U+1E5A "Ṛ" Latin Capital Letter R with Dot Below is a specialised glyph used primarily in the transliteration of Indic scripts, such as Devanagari, to represent the retroflex flap or approximant sound often transcribed as a hard "r" with a short, flapped articulation. It appears in scholarly works, dictionaries, and linguistic texts for languages like Sanskrit, Hindi, and Tamil, where the dot below distinguishes this retroflex consonant from its dental counterpart. The character is encoded in the Latin Extended Additional block and is typically rendered by adding a combining dot below (U+0323) to a standard capital letter R, though precomposed forms exist for compatibility. Its usage ensures precise phonetic representation in academic and digital contexts where accurate transliteration of South Asian languages is essential.