rhotic

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Rhotic is a term in linguistics derived from the Greek letter Rho which may refer to:

• Rhotic consonant, liquid consonants such as the {{IPA|[ɹ]}} sound in red
• R-colored vowel, a vowel that is modified in a way that lowers the third formant, such as the {{IPA|[ɝ]}} sound in Midwestern American English pronunciation of fur
• Erhua ({{zh|t=兒化|s=儿化|p=érhuà|links=no}}), a phonological process that, in Standard Chinese and other Sinitic languages, adds R-coloring to the final of a syllable
• Rhoticity in English, the quality of an accent of English allowing syllable-final {{IPA|/r/}}