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See also: ᵣ
Translingual
Symbol
ʳ
- (IPA) alveolar trill release of a plosive (e.g. , sometimes implying an affricate ); or a weak, fleeting or epenthetic .
- (IPA, obsolete) -colouring of a vowel, or an -offglide of a vowel.
Usage notes
Use of ⟨Vʳ⟩ for non-trilled rhotic vowels is obsolete. ⟨V˞⟩ (vowel with hook diacritic) is now standard. See usage notes at ⟨ʴ⟩.
Further reading
R-coloured vowel on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Letter
ʳ
- (nonstandard, proscribed, chiefly where HTML-marking of superscription is unavailable) Used to represent a superscript r.
Usage notes
- The Unicode Standard[1] recommends against the use of superscript modifier letters to represent stylistically superscript text.[2]
Derived terms
References
- ^ Julie D. Allen et al. (editors), The Unicode Standard: Version 6.0 – Core Specification (February 2011, Unicode Consortium, →ISBN, chapter 7: “European Alphabetic Scripts”, § 7.8: ‘Modifier Letters’, page 229:
- ^ Superscript modifier letters are intended for cases where the letters carry a specific meaning, as in phonetic transcription systems, and are not a substitute for generic styling mechanisms for superscripting of text, as for footnotes, mathematical and chemical expressions, and the like.