R, ko r , shine harafi na goma sha takwas na haruffan Ingilishi na zamani da haruffan Latin na asali na ISO . Its sunan Turanci ne <i id="mwGg">ar</i> (pronounced /ɑːr / ) jam'i ARS, ko a Ireland ko /ɔːr / . Harafin asalin Semitic na iya yin wahayi daga wani hieroglyph na Masar don tp, "kai".[ana buƙatar hujja] An yi amfani da shi don /r/ ta Semites saboda a cikin yaren su, kalmar "kai" rêš (shima sunan harafin) Ya bunƙasa zuwa Girkanci ' Ρ ' ῥῶ ( rhô ) da Latin R. The descending diagonal stroke develops as a graphic variant in some Western Greek alphabets (writing rho as ) but it was not adopted in most Old Italic alphabets; most Old Italic alphabets show variants of their rho between a "P" and a "D" shape, but without the Western Greek descending stroke. Indeed, the oldest known forms of the Latin alphabet itself of the 7th to 6th centuries BC, in the Duenos and the Forum inscription, still write r using the "P" shape of the letter.