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(minuscule: ) is a letter of the Latin alphabet, formed from R with the addition of a dot below the letter. It is used in the transliteration of Afro-Asiatic languages to represent an "emphatic r". It is used in transliterating Indo-Aryan and East Iranian languages to represent either syllabic r or a retroflex flap.

Encoding[edit]

In Unicode, the encodings are:

  • U+1E5A LATIN CAPITAL LETTER R WITH DOT BELOW (HTML Ṛ)
  • U+1E5B LATIN SMALL LETTER R WITH DOT BELOW (HTML ṛ)