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Ꝛ	U+A75A, Ꝛ LATIN CAPITAL LETTER R ROTUNDA

← ꝙ
[U+A759]

Latin Extended-D

See also: ꝛ

Ꝛ upper case (lower case ꝛ)

(The addition of quotations indicative of this usage is being sought): (rare) The uppercase form of the r rotunda, which however traditionally only had a lowercase form.

ꝛ	U+A75B, ꝛ LATIN SMALL LETTER R ROTUNDA

Latin Extended-D

Ꝝ →
[U+A75C]

See also: Ꝛ

Blackletter r rotunda in 1407 Latin Bible.

ꝛ lower case (upper case Ꝛ)

(archaic) The r rotunda, a form of the letter r used after letters such as o which have rounded right sides in whichever typeface is using used. Like the eszett (ß), the letter traditionally had no majuscule form, but one was encoded into Unicode.