Back Alveolarer Approximant ALS لثوي شبه صامت Arabic Звучна венечна приблизителна съгласна Bulgarian Kensonenn kevig dre dostaat Breton Aproximant alveolar sonora Catalan Alveolární aproximanta Czech Stimmhafter alveolarer Approximant German Voiced alveolar approximant English Aproximante alveolar Spanish Consonne spirante alvéolaire voisée French
| Alveolar approximant | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| {{Bold text{ipa symbol|}}} | |||
| ð̠˕ | |||
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| IPA number | 151 | ||
| Encoding | |||
| Entity (decimal) | ɹ | ||
| Unicode (hex) | U+0279 | ||
| X-SAMPA | r\ or D_r_o | ||
| Kirshenbaum | r | ||
| Sound | |||
The alveolar approximant is a consonant. It is used in some languages. It is used in English where the letter "r" is used for the sound, as in run or brick. The International Phonetic Alphabet represents the alveolar and postalveolar approximants as ⟨ɹ⟩. International Phonetic Alphabet represents it as a lowercase letter r rotated 180 degrees, or in broad transcription ⟨r⟩; the X-SAMPA symbol of this is ⟨r\⟩.
Many times the symbol is written as ⟨r⟩ instead of ⟨ɹ⟩ because typing ⟨r⟩ is easier.