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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 [ɹ] sound in red
- R-colored vowel, a vowel that is modified in a way that lowers the third formant, such as the [ɝ] sound in Midwestern American English pronunciation of fur
- Erhua (simplified Chinese:儿化; traditional Chinese:兒化; pinyin:érhuà), 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 /r/
