Latin Capital Letter R
Part of Basic ASCII: Alt 33 to 126
On Windows, hold Alt and type 82 on the numeric keypad to insert latin capital letter r.
- Alt code
- Alt+82
- HTML entity
- R
- Unicode
- U+0052
About this symbol
R comes from resh, the Phoenician letter whose name meant head, drawn as a head in profile. The Greeks made it rho, Ρ, and the Romans added a tail to tell it apart from their P.
Unicode facts
- Official name
- LATIN CAPITAL LETTER R
- Type
- Uppercase letter
- Unicode block
- Basic Latin
- Unicode group
- Uppercase Latin alphabet
- Added in
- Unicode 1.1 (1993)
Click the symbol or any value at the top of the page to copy it. See the full Basic ASCII: Alt 33 to 126 chart for related characters.