Latin Small Letter Double R

A double r built for phonetic transcription, not decoration. Linguists use it in the Anthropos alphabet, a notation system for writing down speech sounds in any language.

Wilhelm Schmidt published the Anthropos alphabet in the journal Anthropos in 1907, as a shared transcription set for researchers describing the sounds of any language. The letter's job was descriptive: one sign, one r-like sound, whatever the spelling of the language being recorded.

A 1928 account of the Anthropos notation shows ꭈ alongside the crossed-tail forms ꭉ and ꭊ. A printed sign from an ethnology and linguistics journal became a separately encoded text character, and its role stayed tied to phonetic notation.

what does it mean if someone sends ꭈ?

A technical glyph, not a reaction — ask what they meant.

As of 2026, no everyday, regional, or cohort meaning for ꭈ is documented. Alone in a chat it is usually a copied or mistyped glyph; the shape alone cannot tell you which notation the sender intended.

Inside a transcription line, using ꭈ signals scholarly phonetic writing. Outside one, it signals only that the sender picked an obscure letter — do not read a joke, a flirt, or an insult into it.