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Also i have no idea what it sounds like irl, if anyone has an example i would be eternally grateful
It's like the equivalent of ugh in english
it's used to express disappointment
you can use it mostly either by itself or preceding a negative comment
More like annoyance. It's like "oh come on" in English.
Or argh.
Here's this thread to help you a bit: https://forum.wordreference.com/threads/rhô-onomatopée-pour-râler.1642487/
yeah that's the word I was looking for, annoyance
I still think ugh is better because it's a lot more common than "argh"
you can find it too in roh là là which is like a more "annoyed" oh là là
some people type orh too
I'd like to add to that, that often, it is not derogatory, it's a way to attach some satire to the meaning and is meant to be ironic.
In fact, I don't think the common use is the obvious meaning of sigh, I think it's often carrying some sort of comical ulterior meaning, to punctuate a joke. (Objectively, that's a discursive marker, and it carries no meaning lexicographically, but semantically, it often carries the meaning of "sigh" but very exaggerated, so exaggerated that it is rarely taken seriously.)
Roh, tu pourrais faire un effort quand même !
The exception to that is when the /o/ isn't pronounced.
Then in this case, its meaning is clear annoyance (Especially when there's some sort of phonetic "click consonant" directly after or before.) and not like argh or sigh, but like similarly to something along the line of X me fait royalement chier.
Thanks for the detailed responses ☺️ I still have no idea what it actually sounds like irl though
I must have heard it by now but just didn't recognize it.
I saw it used exactly like that in a webtoon and was kinda confused, thank you!
Is it actually pronounced like \ʁo\ ?
Yes.
And what click consonant o.o
You use them everyday !
Hard to describe without a microphone, but overall, it's when you press your tongue on your palate or alveolus and do a sound without any air.
i see 
wait let's see if I can find one online.
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Many of the languages spoken by the Nguni people of southern Africa as well as the San people have a range of click sounds.
In this video, Sakhile Dube...
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ah yeah I've seen that 👀
is that the one that u do after roh?
Not exactly, but it is a bit similar.
rohh
I think the one at 1:48 is closer.
it's the click of "you are pissing me off".
Yeah, I assumed it's kinda universal, but I'm no expert in clicks.
i usually see it written as 'tsk'
in english
we also do it repeated like 'tsk tsk tsk' but some people also say literally 'tisk tisk tisk' which, now I'm wondering if that's overcorrection
anyway thanks for your help 
I thought it was like a /ts/, which is not a click, it's a regular consonant. (for it to be a click, you need to be able to use it voiceless, without any air in your lungs, and without expelling any air behind or in front of your tongue.)
But it's sometimes hard to understand what people means when they use somewhat close onomatopoeias instead.
(I trust you though, if you tell me that it's more like a click.)
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tho, i consider it pretty rude to openly "tsk" click at people and i think that probably goes for americans in general, it's an expression of frustration and disappointment
sometimes it can be other things tho like incredulity
but we're pretty cautious about expressing negativity here
usually
with strangers
at least where I've lived
maybe less so in like nyc or something
Yes, that's a click !
Yes, same thing in France, usually when a unvoiced /r:::/ sound it means "it's pissing me off", if there's that tsk behind it, it means It's really pissing me off.
Yeah, in France it's pretty common.
We might be assholes. 
wow this is making me think a lot about the sounds i make. We have some sounds that are kinda similar here to an unvoiced French r, which i think would be called a "scoff"
would you say that the unvoiced /r:::/ is a type of roh ?
I think it's pretty similar, let me check it out.
Yeah, those are pretty similar, different sounds carry different semantic meaning, but overall, yes.
I wouldn't say roh is a scoff (depends on how it's used really), but I'd say that what I've been talking is midway through both.
is the r in roh always unvoiced? i think i get better what sound we're talking about now
No, I think the more unvoiced, the less ironic it is.