U+02DE Modifier Letter Rhotic Hook
U+02DE was added in Unicode version 1.1 in 1993. It belongs to the block
This character is a Modifier Symbol and is commonly used, that is, in no specific script.
The glyph is not a composition. It has no designated width in East Asian texts. In bidirectional text it acts as Other Neutral. When changing direction it is not mirrored. The word that U+02DE forms with similar adjacent characters prevents a line break inside it. The glyph can be confused with one other glyph.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
An r-colored or rhotic vowel (also called a retroflex vowel, vocalic r, or a rhotacized vowel) is a vowel that is modified in a way that results in a lowering in frequency of the third formant. R-colored vowels can be articulated in various ways: the tip or blade of the tongue may be turned up during at least part of the articulation of the vowel (a retroflex articulation) or the back of the tongue may be bunched. In addition, the vocal tract may often be constricted in the region of the epiglottis.
R-colored vowels are exceedingly rare, occurring in less than one percent of all languages. However, they occur in two of the most widely spoken languages: North American English and Mandarin Chinese. In North American English, they are found in words such as dollar, butter, third, color, and nurse. They also occur in Canadian French, some varieties of Portuguese, some Jutlandic dialects of Danish, and in a few indigenous languages of the Americas and of Asia, including Serrano and Yurok in the United States, Luobohe Miao and Mandarin Chinese in China, and Badaga in India.
Representations
System | Representation |
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Nº | 734 |
UTF-8 | CB 9E |
UTF-16 | 02 DE |
UTF-32 | 00 00 02 DE |
URL-Quoted | %CB%9E |
HTML hex reference | ˞ |
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | ◌˞ |
AGL: Latin-5 | uni02DE |
Adobe Glyph List | rhotichookmod |
Related Characters
Confusables
Elsewhere
Complete Record
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1.1 (1993) | |
MODIFIER LETTER RHOTIC HOOK | |
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Spacing Modifier Letters | |
Modifier Symbol | |
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Other Neutral | |
Not Reordered | |
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None | |
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NA | |
Other | |
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Yes | |
Yes | |
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Other | |
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✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
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neutral | |
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No_Joining_Group | |
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