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The grapheme Ř, ř (R with háček, example of Czech pronunciation: ) is a letter used in alphabets of the Czech, Upper Sorbian, and Silesian languages. A similar consonant can also be found in some Norwegian dialects around Narvik and in Berber (especially in its Rif variety). However, of the official national languages, only Czech has it. [citation needed]
The Unicode glyphs are U+0158 Ř LATIN CAPITAL LETTER R WITH CARON and U+0159 ř LATIN SMALL LETTER R WITH CARON. Either can also be represented using the combining character U+030C ̌ COMBINING CARON.
Usage
In Czech it is used to denote [r̝], a raised alveolar non-sonorant trill. Its manner of articulation is similar to other alveolar trills but the tongue is raised; it is partially fricative. It is usually voiced, [r̝], but it also has a voiceless allophone [r̝̊] occurring in the vicinity of voiceless consonants or at the end of a word.
In Upper Sorbian, it denotes the voiceless postalveolar fricative [ʃ].
Tongue twister
Czech: “Třista třicet tři stříbrných stříkaček stříkalo přes třista třicet tři stříbrných střech.”
Phonetically: [ˈtr̝̊ɪsta ˈtr̝̊ɪt͡sɛt ˈtr̝̊ɪ ˈstr̝̊iːbr̩niːx ˈstr̝̊iːkat͡ʃɛk ˈstr̝̊iːkalo pr̝̊ɛs ˈtr̝̊ɪsta ˈtr̝̊ɪt͡sɛt ˈtr̝̊ɪ ˈstr̝̊iːbr̩niːx ˈstr̝̊ɛx].
English: “333 silver fire hoses squirted [water] over 333 silver roofs”.
Computing code
| Preview | Ř | ř | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unicode name | LATIN CAPITAL LETTER R WITH CARON | LATIN SMALL LETTER R WITH CARON | ||
| Encodings | decimal | hex | dec | hex |
| Unicode | 344 | U+0158 | 345 | U+0159 |
| UTF-8 | 197 152 | C5 98 | 197 153 | C5 99 |
| Numeric character reference | Ř |
Ř |
ř |
ř |
| Named character reference | Ř | ř | ||