Ŕ

Ŕ U+0154, Ŕ
LATIN CAPITAL LETTER R WITH ACUTE
Composition:R [U+0052] + ◌́ [U+0301]
œ
[U+0153]
Latin Extended-A ŕ
[U+0155]

Basque

Etymology

Coined by Sabino Arana.

Pronunciation

  • (phoneme) IPA(key): /r/

Letter

Ŕ (upper case, lower case ŕ)

  1. (obsolete) The letter R with an acute accent.

Usage notes

  • In Sabino Arana's orthography, it was used for the trill consonant. In the standard orthography, it has been replaced by r in syllable-final positions and by rr between vowels.

See also

Lower Sorbian

Alternative forms

  • (obsolete)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /rʲ/

Letter

Ŕ (lower case ŕ)

  1. The twenty-fourth letter of the Lower Sorbian alphabet, called ejŕ and written in the Latin script.

Usage notes

As the letter ŕ is never the first letter of a word, the upper case form appears only when a word is written in ALL CAPS.

See also

Slovak

Pronunciation

  • (phoneme) IPA(key): /r̩ː/

Letter

Ŕ (lower case ŕ)

  1. The thirty-third letter of the Slovak alphabet, written in the Latin script.

See also

Further reading

  • Ŕ”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2025