The grapheme Ř, ř (R with háček, example of Czech pronunciation: "řeka" (help·info)) is a letter used in alphabets of the Czech, Upper Sorbian languages and also in Kurdish languages when written in Latin script. It was also used in a proposed orthography for the Silesian language. A similar consonant can also be found in some Norwegian dialects (around Narvik), in Berber (especially in its Rif and Central Atlas varieties), and in some Spanish dialects as a variation of 'rr' (mainly Pastuso Spanish and some dialects in Ecuador).
The Unicode glyphs are U+0158 Ř and U+0159 ř . 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. Its Polish equivalent is ⟨rz⟩.
In Upper Sorbian, it denotes the voiceless postalveolar fricative [ʃ].
In Kurdish, it represents the voiced alveolar trill [r].
In Rif-Berber and Atlas Berber, the letter Ř / ř is used for /ɺ/, a sound between /l/ and /r/.
In Umbrian in transliterations of the native alphabet, it is used to designate a sound of unknown quality, generally deriving from earlier *d. The same sound is represented in the Latin alphabet by the sequence <rs>.
Tongue twister
Czech: “Tři sta třicet tři stříbrných stříkaček stříkalo přes tři sta třicet tři stříbrných střech.”
Phonetically: [ˈtr̝̊ɪsta ˈtr̝̊ɪt͡sɛt ˈtr̝̊ɪ ˈstr̝̊iːbr̩niːx ˈstr̝̊iːkat͡ʃɛk ˈstr̝̊iːkalo pr̝̊ɛs ˈtr̝̊ɪsta ˈtr̝̊ɪt͡sɛt ˈtr̝̊ɪ ˈstr̝̊iːbr̩niːx ˈstr̝̊ɛx].
English: “333 silver fire hoses squirted over 333 silver roofs”.
Encodings
| 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 | ||