Er (Cyrillic)

Cyrillic letter Er
Numeric value: 100
The Cyrillic script
Slavic letters
АБВГҐДЂ
ЃЕЀЁЄЖЗ
З́ЅИЍІЇЙ
ЈКЛЉМНЊ
ОПРСС́ТЋ
ЌУЎФХЦЧ
ЏШЩЪЫЬЭ
ЮЯ
Non-Slavic letters
А́А̀ӐА̄А̊А̃Ӓ
Ӓ̄В̌ӘӘ́Ә̃ӚӔ
ҒГ̧Г̑Г̄Г̣Г̌Ҕ
ӺҒ̌ӶԀԂ
Д̆Д̣ԪԬД̆Ӗ
Е̄Е̃Ё̄Є̈ӁҖ
ӜԄҘӞЗ̌З̱З̣
ԐԐ̈ӠԆӢИ̃Ҋ
ӤИ́ҚӃҠҞҜ
ԞК̣ԚӅԮԒԠ
ԈԔӍӉҢԨӇ
ҤԢԊО́О̀О̆О̂
О̃О̄ӦӦ̄ӨӨ̄Ө́
Ө̆ӪҨԤҦР̌Ҏ
ԖҪС̣С̱ԌТ̌Т̣
ҬԎУ̃Ӯ
ӰӰ́ӲҮҮ́ҰХ̣
Х̱Х̮Х̑ҲӼӾҺ
Һ̈ԦҴҶӴ
ӋҸҼҾ
Ы̆Ы̄ӸҌЭ̆Э̄Э̇
ӬӬ́Ӭ̄Ю̆Ю̈Ю̈́Ю̄
Я̆Я̄Я̈ԘԜӀ
Archaic letters
ҀѺ
ѸѠѼѾ
ѢѤѦ
ѪѨѬѮ
ѰѲѴѶ

Er р; italics: Р р) is a letter of the Cyrillic script.

It commonly represents the alveolar trill /r/, like the "rolled" sound in the Scottish pronunciation of r in "curd".

History

The Cyrillic letter Er was derived from the Greek letter Rho ρ).

The name of Er in the Early Cyrillic alphabet was рьци (rĭci), meaning "speak".

In the Cyrillic numeral system, Er had a value of 100.

Form

The Cyrillic letter Er (Р р) looks similar to the Greek letter Rho (Ρ ρ) and the same as the Latin letter P (P p).

Usage

As used in the alphabets of various languages, р represents the following sounds:

The pronunciations shown in the table are the primary ones for each language; for details consult the articles on the languages.

LanguagePosition in
alphabet
Pronunciation
Belarusian18th/r/
Bulgarian17th/r/, /rʲ/
Macedonian21st/r/
Russian18th/r/, /rʲ/
Serbian20th/r/
Ukrainian21st/r/, /rʲ/

Computing codes

CharacterРр
Unicode nameCYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER ERCYRILLIC SMALL LETTER ER
Encodingsdecimalhexdecimalhex
Unicode1056U+04201088U+0440
UTF-8208 160D0 A0209 128D1 80
Numeric character referenceРРрр
KOI8-R and KOI8-U242F2210D2
Code page 855226E2225E1
Code page 86614490224E0
Windows-1251208D0240F0
ISO-8859-5192C0224E0
Macintosh Cyrillic14490240F0
  • The dictionary definition of Р at Wiktionary
  • The dictionary definition of р at Wiktionary
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