U+A75A "Ꝛ" Latin Capital Letter R Rotunda Unicode Character

U+A75A "Ꝛ" Latin Capital Letter R Rotunda is a historical typographic variant of the Latin letter R, characterized by a rounded, bow-like form that lacks the standard right leg, making it resemble a modified letter P. It was primarily used in medieval and early modern manuscripts, particularly in Insular scripts such as Old English and Irish, to represent the sound of a trilled or soft R, and it also served as an abbreviation in scribal shorthand for words like "rum" or "re" in Latin texts. Although it fell out of common use with the advent of printing presses, it has been encoded in Unicode to preserve historical and paleographic studies, allowing modern digital representation of these ancient scribal conventions.