Modifier Letter Small Turned R With Hook

Group: Letterlike

Keywords

letterlike

About this character

Modifier Letter Small Turned R With Hook belongs to the Letterlike group and is encoded at U+02B5. It was added in Unicode 0.0.

Shortcode

Chat apps such as Slack, Discord and GitHub accept this shortcode instead of the character itself.

Technical codes

Code point: U+02B5
Hex: 02B5
Decimal: 693
HTML: ʵ
CSS: \2B5
JavaScript: \u02B5
Python: \u02B5
UTF-8: CA B5

The same character is drawn differently by each operating system and font.

Questions

Why does this emoji look different on my phone?

Unicode standardises the meaning of a character, not its drawing. Apple, Google, Microsoft and Samsung each ship their own artwork, so the same code point changes shape between devices.

Does copying work everywhere?

The character is copied as plain text, so it pastes into any app that accepts text. If the receiving app has no font for it, you will see an empty box instead.