U+0280 Latin Letter Small Capital R
U+0280 was added in Unicode version 1.1 in 1993. It belongs to the block
This character is a Lowercase Letter and is mainly used in the Latin script. Its uppercase variant is
The glyph is not a composition. It has no designated width in East Asian texts. In bidirectional text it is written from left to right. When changing direction it is not mirrored. The word that U+0280 forms with similar adjacent characters prevents a line break inside it. The glyph can be confused with 2 other glyphs.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
Algiz (also Elhaz) is the name conventionally given to the "z-rune" ᛉ of the Elder Futhark runic alphabet. Its transliteration is z, understood as a phoneme of the Proto-Germanic language, the terminal *z continuing Proto-Indo-European terminal *s via Verner's law.
It is one of two runes which express a phoneme that does not occur word-initially, and thus could not be named acrophonically, the other being the ŋ-rune Ingwaz ᛜ. As the terminal *-z phoneme marks the nominative singular suffix of masculine nouns, the rune occurs comparatively frequently in early epigraphy.
Because this specific phoneme was lost at an early time, the Elder Futhark rune underwent changes in the medieval runic alphabets. In the Anglo-Saxon futhorc it retained its shape, but became otiose as it ceased to represent any sound in an Old English. However, possibly due to runic manuscript tradition, it was occasionally used to transliterate the Latin letter X into the runic script.
In Proto-Norse and Old Norse, the Germanic *z phoneme developed into an R sound, perhaps realized as a retroflex approximant [ɻ], which is usually transcribed as ʀ. This sound was written in the Younger Futhark using the Yr rune ᛦ, the Algiz rune turned upside down, from about the 7th century. This phoneme eventually became indistinguishable from the regular r sound in the later stages of Old Norse, at about the 11th or 12th century.
The shape of the rune may be derived from that of a letter expressing /x/ in certain Old Italic alphabets (𐌙), which was in turn derived from the Greek letter Ψ which had the value of /kʰ/ (rather than /ps/) in the Western Greek alphabet.
Representations
System | Representation |
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Nº | 640 |
UTF-8 | CA 80 |
UTF-16 | 02 80 |
UTF-32 | 00 00 02 80 |
URL-Quoted | %CA%80 |
HTML hex reference | ʀ |
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | ʀ |
AGL: Latin-5 | uni0280 |
Related Characters
Confusables
Elsewhere
Complete Record
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1.1 (1993) | |
LATIN LETTER SMALL CAPITAL R | |
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Lowercase Letter | |
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Left To Right | |
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✘ | |
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R |