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R/r

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Also known as r, ar, Romeo, ʀ, R, romeo

R, or r, is the eighteenth letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is ar (pronounced ), plural ars.

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R is the eighteenth letter of the Latin alphabet and is used in modern English and many other languages around the world. It's an essential part of written communication, allowing us to represent the sounds and words we use in everyday language.

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Key facts

Grapheme.name
R
Grapheme.letter
R r
Grapheme.script
latin script
Grapheme.type
Alphabet
Grapheme.typedesc
ic
Grapheme.language
Latin language
Grapheme.unicode
U+0052, U+0072
Grapheme.alphanumber
18
Grapheme.fam1
D1
Grapheme.fam2
class=skin-invert-image|20px|Resh
Grapheme.fam3
class=skin-invert-image|20px|Res
Grapheme.fam4
Ρ ρ
Grapheme.fam5
𐌓 class=skin-invert-image|20px|Early Greek Rho
Grapheme.fam6
class=skin-invert-image|20px
Grapheme.fam7
class=skin-invert-image|20px
Grapheme.fam8
class=skin-invert-image|20px class=skin-invert-image|20px|Cursive R-rotunda
Grapheme.usageperiod
50 CE to present
Grapheme.direction
Left-to-right

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20 sections
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  • Name
  • History
  • Antiquity
  • Cursive
  • Use in writing systems
  • English
  • Other languages
  • Other systems
  • Other uses
  • Related characters
  • Descendants and related characters in the Latin alphabet
  • Calligraphic variants in the Latin alphabet
  • Ancestors and siblings in other alphabets
  • Abbreviations, signs and symbols
  • Other representations
  • Computing <span class="anchor" id="Computing codes"></span>
  • Other
  • See also
  • References
  • External links

R, or r, is the eighteenth letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is ar (pronounced ), plural ars.

The letter is the eighth most common letter in English and the fourth-most common consonant, after , , and .

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “R/r” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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