Rā '

Ra in isolated form

connected shape
from the right:	ـر

Rāʾ ,راء, is the tenth letter of the Arabic alphabet and (as Re ) the twelfth of the Persian . It emerged from the Phoenician Resch and is thus related to the Latin R , the Greek Rho and the Hebrew Resch . The numerical value 200 is assigned to it.

Sound value and transcription

The Ra corresponds to the "Zungen-R" as it is in some German dialects and in some foreign languages ​​such as B. occurs in Spanish . It can be clearly distinguished from the "suppository-R", as this sound is also present in Arabic in the form of the Ghain . In the DMG inscription, the Ra is given with an “r”.

The Ra is a sun letter , i.e. i.e., a preceding al- (definite article) is assimilated.

Ra in Unicode

Unicode codepoint	U + 0631
Unicode name	ARABIC LETTER REH
HTML	& # 1585;
ISO 8859-6	0xd1