Er (Cyrillic)

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

Cyrillic letter Er
Phonetic usage:[r]
Numeric value:100
The Cyrillic script
Slavic letters
АБВГҐДЂ
ЃЕЀЁЄЖЗ
З́ЅИЍЙІЇ
ЈКЛЉМНЊ
ОŌПРСС́Т
ЋЌУӮЎФХ
ЦЧЏШЩЪЫ
ЬЭЮЯ
Non-Slavic letters
А́А̀ӐА̄А̊А̃Ӓ
Ӓ̄ӔӘӘ́Ә̃ӚВ̌
ҒГ̧Г̑Г̄Г̣Г̌Ҕ
ӺҒ̌ӶԀԂ
Д̆Д̣ԪԬД̆Ӗ
Е̄Е̃Ё̄Є̈ӁҖӜ
ԄҘӞЗ̌З̱З̣Ԑ
Ԑ̈ӠԆӢИ̃ҊӤ
И́ҚӃҠҞҜК̣
ԚӅԮԒԈӍӉ
ҢԨӇҤԊО́О̀
О̆О̂О̃ӦӦ̄ӨӨ̄
Ө́Ө̆ӪҨԤҦР̌
ҎԖҪС̣С̱Т̌Т̣
ҬԎУ̃Ӱ
Ӱ́ӲҮҮ́ҰХ̣Х̱
Х̮Х̑ҲӼӾҺҺ̈
ԦҴҶӴӋҸҼ
ҾЫ̆Ы̄ӸҌЭ̆Э̄
Э̇ӬӬ́Ӭ̄Ю̆Ю̈Ю̈́
Ю̄Я̆Я̄Я̈ԜӀ
Archaic letters
ҀѺ
ОУѠѼѾ
ѢѤѦ
ѪѨѬѮ
ѰѲԌ
ѴѶԘ
ԢԔԠԞ

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 (П in Cyrillic).

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

Character information
PreviewРр
Unicode nameCYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER ERCYRILLIC SMALL LETTER ER
Encodingsdecimalhexdecimalhex
Unicode1056U+04201088U+0440
UTF-8208 160D0 A0209 128D1 80
Numeric character referenceРРрр
Named character referenceРр
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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