What ꭋ means
ꭋ records a specific r sound in dialect transcription. This script r belongs to phonetic writing: a way to record speech sounds more precisely than ordinary spelling. The connected Swedish and Danish traditions reach back to 1878 and 1890; a printed German example appears in 1893.
Dania is a system for transcribing dialect speech. It uses ꭋ for an r made with the back of the tongue, but not at the uvula, the small tissue that hangs at the back of the mouth. Teuthonista is a notation for dialects in Germanic and Romance languages, such as German and Spanish; its name comes from a journal first published in 1924. Check each system's key: ꭋ has no universal sound.
Why does ꭋ look different in old books?
Old sources show more than one printed shape.
Examples from 1893 through 1949 include italic forms, proposed roman forms, and a reversed-r form. A typeface can also change how this specialist letter looks, so check the source's key to tell a variant shape from a different symbol.
Technical and archival: ꭋ belongs in phonetic records; outside that setting it reads as specialist notation.
Without a shared transcription context, readers may not know what sound you mean.
Who writes ꭋ
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What it means when someone sends it to you
3 readingsAn r made with the back of the tongue, away from the uvula.
Don't confuse it with
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Questions people ask
1Why does ꭋ 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 ꭋ
- Also called
- script r
- Search it as
- phonetic r · dania r · teuthonista r · dialect r
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
ꭋ\AB4BCodes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.