What Ʀ means
Ʀ is the capital form of the transliteration letter ʀ. Its lowercase partner is drawn as a small-capital R. In scholarly writing about Old Norse, ʀ transliterates the Younger Futhark rune ᛦ. The Latin letter Ʀ and the rune ᛦ are distinct characters.
Who writes Ʀ
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Don't confuse it with
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Latin Capital Letter R
Plain Latin capital R. Ʀ (Latin letter Yr) is a separate, rare letter that looks almost identical, and can pass for R in spoofed text.
Latin Capital Letter R With Stroke
Latin capital R with stroke, a rare letter that looks like R with a bar. Easily confused with Ʀ in some fonts.
ℛ
Script Capital R
Script capital R, a letterlike symbol. Looks like a stylised R; search and copy treat it as a different character.
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Fullwidth Latin Capital Letter R
Looks like R in CJK-style text; it is a different code point, so search and passwords may not match.
Cherokee Letter E
Can look like a Latin R in many fonts; it is a Cherokee letter, so it breaks search and spelling.
Related characters
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Questions people ask
1Why does Ʀ show as a box on some devices?
Because that device's fonts have no glyph for it. The character is still correct and still copies correctly — the box is a missing glyph, not a broken character.
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How to type or find Ʀ
- Search it as
- yr rune · Old Norse transliteration · Younger Futhark · small capital r
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
Ʀ
HTML hex
Ʀ
CSS content
content: "\01A6";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%C6%A6
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On screen
1
Code points
1
JS .length
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UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.