Er (Cyrillic)

History

The Cyrillic letter er was derived from the Greek letter rho (Ρ 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 (П in Russian).

Usage

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

  • alveolar trill /r/, like the "rolled" sound in the Scottish pronunciation of r in "curd"
  • palatalized alveolar trill /rʲ/

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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