Rhotic is a term in linguistics which may refer to: Rhotic consonant, liquid consonants such as the sound in red R-colored vowel, a vowel that is modified in a way that lowers the third formant, such as the sound in Midwestern American English pronunciation of fur Erhua (), a phonological process that adds R-coloring in some varieties of Mandarin Chinese See also Rhotacism Rhoticity in English, English accents that keep or lose it in some cases