ろ, in hiragana, or ロ in katakana, (romanised as ro) is one of the Japanese kana, each of which represents one mora. The hiragana is written in one stroke, katakana in three. Both represent [ɾo] and both originate from the Chinese character 呂. The Ainu language uses a small ㇿ to represent a final r sound after an o sound (オㇿ or). The combination of an R-column kana letter with handakuten ゜ – ろ゚ in hiragana and ロ゚ in katakana – was introduced to represent [lo] in the early 20th century.[according to whom?]
ro | |||
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transliteration | ro | ||
hiragana origin | 呂 | ||
katakana origin | 呂 | ||
Man'yōgana | 路 漏 呂 侶 | ||
spelling kana | ローマのロ Rōma no "ro" | ||
unicode | U+308D, U+30ED | ||
braille | |||
Note: These Man'yōgana originally represented syllables with one of two different vowel sounds, which merged in later pronunciation |
Form | Rōmaji | Hiragana | Katakana |
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Normal r- (ら行 ra-gyō) | ro | ろ | ロ |
rou roo rō | ろう, ろぅ ろお, ろぉ ろー | ロウ, ロゥ ロオ, ロォ ロー |
Stroke order
Other communicative representations
Japanese radiotelephony alphabet | Wabun code |
口ーマの口 Rōma no "Ro" |
Japanese Navy Signal Flag | Japanese semaphore | Japanese manual syllabary (fingerspelling) | Braille dots-245 Japanese Braille |
- Full Braille representation
ろ / 口 in Japanese Braille | |||
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ろ / 口 ro | ろう / 口ー rō | Other kana based on Braille ろ | |
りょ / リョ ryo | りょう / リョー ryō | ||
Preview | ろ | 口 | ロ | ㇿ | ㋺ | |||||
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Unicode name | HIRAGANA LETTER RO | KATAKANA LETTER RO | HALFWIDTH KATAKANA LETTER RO | KATAKANA LETTER SMALL RO | CIRCLED KATAKANA RO | |||||
Encodings | decimal | hex | dec | hex | dec | hex | dec | hex | dec | hex |
Unicode | 12429 | U+308D | 21475 | U+53E3 | 65435 | U+FF9B | 12799 | U+31FF | 13050 | U+32FA |
UTF-8 | 227 130 141 | E3 82 8D | 229 143 163 | E5 8F A3 | 239 190 155 | EF BE 9B | 227 135 191 | E3 87 BF | 227 139 186 | E3 8B BA |
Numeric character reference | ろ | ろ | 口 | 口 | ロ | ロ | ㇿ | ㇿ | ㋺ | ㋺ |
Shift JIS (plain)[1] | 130 235 | 82 EB | 131 141 | 83 8D | 219 | DB | ||||
Shift JIS-2004[2] | 130 235 | 82 EB | 131 141 | 83 8D | 219 | DB | 131 252 | 83 FC | ||
EUC-JP (plain)[3] | 164 237 | A4 ED | 165 237 | A5 ED | 142 219 | 8E DB | ||||
EUC-JIS-2004[4] | 164 237 | A4 ED | 165 237 | A5 ED | 142 219 | 8E DB | 166 254 | A6 FE | ||
GB 18030[5] | 164 237 | A4 ED | 165 237 | A5 ED | 132 49 155 53 | 84 31 9B 35 | 129 57 189 57 | 81 39 BD 39 | ||
EUC-KR[6] / UHC[7] | 170 237 | AA ED | 171 237 | AB ED | ||||||
Big5 (non-ETEN kana)[8] | 198 241 | C6 F1 | 199 167 | C7 A7 | ||||||
Big5 (ETEN / HKSCS)[9] | 199 116 | C7 74 | 199 233 | C7 E9 |
See also
References
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