Ꞧ Explained

R with oblique stroke
Letter:Ꞧ ꞧ
Imagealt:Capital and lowercase barred R with oblique stroke
Script:Latin script
Type:Alphabet
Typedesc:ic
Language:Latvian language
Usageperiod:pre-1921

(lowercase ) is a letter derived from the Latin alphabet letter R, combined with bar diacritic.

Usage

It was used in Latvian orthography until 1921,[1] to represent palatalized dental trill /rʲ/. In modern orthography, it was replaced with Ŗ (R with a cedilla), which was later became obsolete since 1946.

Computing codes

The forms are represented in Unicode as:

See also

Notes and References

  1. https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/UA720.pdf Latin Extended-D