U+1E5B "ṛ" Latin Small Letter R with Dot Below Unicode Character

U+1E5B "ṛ" Latin Small Letter R with Dot Below is a specialized letter used primarily in the transliteration of Indic scripts and certain phonetic notations to represent a retroflex or syllabic R sound, where the dot beneath the character acts as a diacritical mark to distinguish it from a standard alveolar R. This character often appears in scholarly works and linguistic studies of languages such as Sanskrit, Hindi, and other languages of the Indian subcontinent, as well as in some African orthographies, to accurately convey a specific consonantal pronunciation that is pronounced with the tongue curled back against the roof of the mouth.