Ra (kana)
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| transliteration | ra, la | |||
| hiragana origin | 良 | |||
| katakana origin | 良 | |||
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ら, in hiragana, or ラ in katakana, is one of the Japanese kana, which each represent one mora. Both versions are written with two strokes and have origins in the character 良; both characters represent the sound [ɽa]. The Ainu language uses a small katakana ㇻ to represent a final r sound after an a sound (アㇻ ar).
| Form | Rōmaji | Hiragana | Katakana |
|---|---|---|---|
| Normal r- (ら行 ra-gyō) |
Ra, La | ら | ラ |
| Rā, Lā | らあ, らぁ らー, ら～ |
ラア, ラァ ラー, ラ～ |
Stroke order
 Stroke order in writing ら |
 Stroke order in writing ラ |
Stroke order in writing ら
Stroke order in writing ラ
Other communicative representations
| Character | ら | ラ | ﾗ | ㇻ | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unicode name | HIRAGANA LETTER RA | KATAKANA LETTER RA | HALFWIDTH KATAKANA LETTER RA | KATAKANA LETTER SMALL RA | ||||
| Encodings | decimal | hex | decimal | hex | decimal | hex | decimal | hex |
| Unicode | 12425 | U+3089 | 12521 | U+30E9 | 65431 | U+FF97 | 12795 | U+31FB |
| UTF-8 | 227 130 137 | E3 82 89 | 227 131 169 | E3 83 A9 | 239 190 151 | EF BE 97 | 227 135 187 | E3 87 BB |
| Numeric character reference | ら | ら | ラ | ラ | ﾗ | ﾗ | ㇻ | ㇻ |
| Shift JIS | 130 231 | 82 E7 | 131 137 | 83 89 | 215 | D7 | ||
- Braille
| ら / ラ in Japanese Braille | |||
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| ら / ラ ra | らあ / ラー rā | Other kana based on Braille ら | |
| りゃ / リャ rya | りゃあ / リャー ryā | ||
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- Japanese semaphore
See also
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Look up ら or ラ in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. |