R with oblique stroke
Letter of the Latin alphabet
Ꞧ (lowercase ꞧ) is a letter derived from the Latin alphabet letter R, combined with bar diacritic.
01Usage
It was used in Latvian orthography until 1921, 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.
02Computing codes
The forms are represented in Unicode as:
- U+A7A6 Ꞧ LATIN CAPITAL LETTER R WITH OBLIQUE STROKE
- U+A7A7 ꞧ LATIN SMALL LETTER R WITH OBLIQUE STROKE
Sources and credits
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- R with oblique stroke - uppercase and lowercase.svg by Denis Moyogo Jacquerye, CC BY-SA 3.0
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