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𐞩

modifier letter small r with fishhook

Modifier Letter Small R With Fishhook

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𐞩 is the raised modifier form of ɾ, the International Phonetic Alphabet’s sign for a quick tongue tap made with the voice on, just behind the upper teeth. In transcription, it modifies another sound instead of writing a separate consonant. Styling ɾ to sit high can look similar, but it remains a different character.

Text symbol

What 𐞩 means

It marks a tap attached to another sound. The ordinary IPA letter ɾ stands for a brief, voiced tongue tap just behind the upper teeth; 𐞩 places that sound in modifier position. Its raised role tells the reader to combine it with a neighboring sound, not count it as a separate consonant.

The IPA chart listed ɾ in 1926 for a tongue flap made at the teeth or the ridge just behind them. A 1991 English dialect atlas used superscript ɾ for weakened pronunciations of English r. A 2020 Unicode proposal documents another use in Iwaidjan-language descriptions: l𐞩 marks an l sound modified by a tap, while lɾ writes l followed by a separate tap.

Why not just superscript ɾ?

A raised look is only a style; modifier status is part of the text. Word processors can superscript ordinary ɾ, but stripping the formatting leaves the same standalone letter. The dedicated modifier preserves its role as a character, and fonts can give it a matching raised design.

Specialist phonetic notation; the surrounding transcription shows which sound 𐞩 modifies.

Do not substitute ɾ: that turns the modifier into the ordinary sound sign.

Who writes 𐞩

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Don't confuse it with

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ɾ
Latin Small Letter R With Fishhook
𐞩 vs ɾ: ɾ marks a voiced tongue tap as a full IPA sound; 𐞩 is its raised modifier form.
ɽ
Latin Small Letter R With Tail
The tail form marks a tap made with the tongue curled farther back; 𐞩 is based on ɾ, a tap just behind the upper teeth.
ʳ
Modifier Letter Small R
A generic superscript r has no fishhook. It can imitate the height but not the character’s identity.

Combination ideas

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In Iwaidjan transcription, l modified by a tap; one sound, not l followed by a separate tap.
The parallel retroflex case: ɭ modified by the tail-form tap, not ɭ followed by a separate ɽ.

Questions people ask

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why does 𐞩 show as a box

Your font likely lacks this glyph. A font that supports Latin Extended-F can display it; the missing shape does not make the text a different character.

How to type or find 𐞩

Also called
superscript ɾ · modifier fishhook · superscript r with fishhook
Search it as
ipa · phonetics · ɾ modifier · tap · flap · fishhook r · alveolar tap · voiced tap
Shows up in
Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
⎇Alt+XType 107A9, then AltX to get 𐞩.
Windows
⊞Win+Rrun charmap for the full table, or use the emoji picker's Ω symbols tab (Win .).
macOS
⌃Control+⌘Command+␣SpaceOpen the character viewer and search “modifier letter small r with fishhook”.
Linux
⎈Ctrl+⇧Shift+UType 107a9, then Enter or Space.
HTML
𐞩
CSS
\107A9
How do I type 𐞩
In Python source, write \U000107A9; in HTML, write 𐞩. Either produces the character when interpreted.
Superscript formatting
This changes ordinary ɾ’s appearance only; it does not turn it into a modifier character.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
𐞩
HTML hex
𐞩
CSS content
content: "\107A9";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%90%9E%A9
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On screen
1
Code points
2
JS .length
4
UTF-8 bytes

A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.

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