Unicode Character "ʁ" (U+0281)

The character ʁ (Latin Letter Small Capital Inverted R) is represented by the Unicode codepoint U+0281. It is encoded in the IPA Extensions block, which belongs to the Basic Multilingual Plane. It was added to Unicode in version 1.1 (June, 1993). It is HTML encoded as ʁ.

Main Unicode Properties

Name Latin Letter Small Capital Inverted R
Unicode Codepoint U+0281
Unicode Version 1.1 (June, 1993)
Block IPA Extensions
Plane Basic Multilingual Plane

Bidirectional Data

Bidirectional class Left To Right (L)
Is mirrored? No

Other Unicode Data

Category Lowercase Letter
Script Latin
Combining Class Not Reordered

U+0281 Conversion

HTML (decimal) ʁ
HTML (hex) ʁ
HTML (named) -
URL Escape Code %CA%81
CSS \000281
JavaScript, JSON \u0281
C, C++, Java \u0281
Python \u0281
Rust \u{0281}
Ruby \u0281

How to type "ʁ"

  • Windows ?: Hold Alt, then type 0 2 8 1. Release Alt.
  • Mac ?: Hold Alt ⌥, then type 0 2 8 1. Release Alt.

Preview

  • ʁ
    Times, Times New Roman, serif
  • ʁ
    Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif
  • ʁ
    Courier, Courier New, monospace

UTF Encodings

UTF-8 (hex) 0xCA 0x81
UTF-16 (hex) 0x0281
UTF-32 (hex) 0x00000281

Characters based on "ʁ" (U+0281)

  • ʶ U+02B6

    Modifier Letter Small Capital Inverted R

References