Er (Cyrillic)
| Er, рьци (Early Cyrillic alphabet) | |
|---|---|
| Р р | |
 | |
| Usage | |
| Writing system | Cyrillic |
| Type | Alphabetic |
| Sound values | [r] |
| History | |
| Development | Ρ ρ
|
| Other | |
| Associated numbers | 100 (Cyrillic numerals) |
Er (Р 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
[edit]The Cyrillic letter Er was derived from the Greek letter Rho (Ρ ρ). It has no connection to the Latin letter P (P p), which evolved from the Greek letter Pi (Π π), despite both having the same form.
The name of Er in the Early Cyrillic alphabet was рьци (rĭci), meaning "speak".[1]
In the Cyrillic numeral system, er had a value of 100.
Form
[edit]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; П in Cyrillic).
Usage
[edit]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.
| Language | Position in alphabet |
Pronunciation |
|---|---|---|
| Belarusian | 18th | /r/ |
| Bulgarian | 17th | /r/, /rʲ/ |
| Macedonian | 21st | /r/ |
| Russian | 18th | /r/, /rʲ/ |
| Serbian | 20th | /r/ |
| Ukrainian | 21st | /r/, /rʲ/ |
Related letters and other similar characters
[edit]- Ρ ρ/ϱ : Greek letter rho
- R r : Latin letter R
- P p : Latin letter P
- ₽ : Russian ruble sign
- П п : Cyrillic letter П
- Я я : Cyrillic letter Я
Computing codes
[edit]| Preview | Р | р | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unicode name | CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER ER | CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER ER | ||
| Encodings | decimal | hex | dec | hex |
| Unicode | 1056 | U+0420 | 1088 | U+0440 |
| UTF-8 | 208 160 | D0 A0 | 209 128 | D1 80 |
| Numeric character reference | Р |
Р |
р |
р |
| Named character reference | Р | р | ||
| KOI8-R and KOI8-U | 242 | F2 | 210 | D2 |
| Code page 855 | 226 | E2 | 225 | E1 |
| Code page 866 | 144 | 90 | 224 | E0 |
| Windows-1251 | 208 | D0 | 240 | F0 |
| ISO-8859-5 | 192 | C0 | 224 | E0 |
| Macintosh Cyrillic | 144 | 90 | 240 | F0 |
External links
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References
[edit]- ^ Corbett, Professor Greville; Comrie, Professor Bernard (September 2003). The Slavonic Languages. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-136-86137-6.