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U+0159 · LATIN SMALL LETTER R WITH CARON

Latin Small Letter R with Caron

  • CodepointU+0159
  • NameLATIN SMALL LETTER R WITH CARON
  • Decimal345
  • BlockLatin Extended-A (U+0100–U+017F)
  • Plane0 — Basic Multilingual Plane
  • ScriptLatin
  • CategoryLl — Lowercase Letter
  • Unicode version1.1 (1993)
  • Bidi classL — Left-to-Right
  • Combining class0
  • East Asian widthN — Neutral
  • MirroredNo

About this character

U+0159 (ř) is LATIN SMALL LETTER R WITH CARON, a lowercase letter in the Latin Extended-A block. It belongs to the Latin script. It was added in Unicode 1.1 (1993).

Its uppercase form is U+0158 Ř.

It is precomposed. Under NFD it decomposes into U+0072 r + U+030C ◌̌, and NFC recombines that sequence into this single codepoint, so both spellings are canonically equivalent and should compare equal after normalization. See the normalization guide.

How to type ř

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Encodings & escapes

UTF-8 encoder →
UTF-8C5 992 bytes
UTF-1601591 code unit
UTF-32000001594 bytes
HTML namedřnamed character reference
HTML decimalř
HTML hexř
CSS\159in content: "…"
JavaScript\u0159
JSON\u0159
Python\u0159
Python\N{LATIN SMALL LETTER R WITH CARON}by name
Java / C#\u0159
C / C++\u0159universal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP\u{159}
Go\u0159
Ruby\u0159
Excel / Sheets=UNICHAR(345)
URL-encoded%C5%99percent-encoded UTF-8
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Normalization forms

Normalizer →
NFCunchanged
NFDU+0072 r + U+030C ◌̌
NFKCunchanged
NFKDU+0072 r + U+030C ◌̌
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Nearby in Latin Extended-A

All in block →
U+0153œLatin Small Ligature Oe U+0154ŔLatin Capital Letter R with Acute U+0155ŕLatin Small Letter R with Acute U+0156ŖLatin Capital Letter R with Cedilla U+0157ŗLatin Small Letter R with Cedilla U+0158ŘLatin Capital Letter R with Caron U+015AŚLatin Capital Letter S with Acute U+015BśLatin Small Letter S with Acute U+015CŜLatin Capital Letter S with Circumflex U+015DŝLatin Small Letter S with Circumflex U+015EŞLatin Capital Letter S with Cedilla U+015FşLatin Small Letter S with Cedilla