Ra (kana)

Ra (hiragana: ら; katakana: ラ) 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 [ɾa] (listen). The Ainu language uses a small katakana ㇻ to represent a final r sound after an a sound (アㇻ ar). The combination of an R-column kana letter with ゜ら゚ in hiragana, and ラ゚ in katakana was introduced to represent [la] in the early 20th century.

Form Rōmaji Hiragana Katakana
Normal r-
(ら行 ra-gyō)
Ra, La
raa, laa
Rā, Lā
らあ, らぁ
らー, ら~
ラア, ラァ
ラー, ラ~
ra
hiragana
katakana
transliterationra, la
hiragana origin
katakana origin
Man'yōgana良 浪 郎 楽 羅 等
spelling kanaラジオのラ Rajio no "ra"
unicodeU+3089, U+30E9
braille

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

  • Full Braille representation
ら / ラ in Japanese Braille
ら / ラ
ra
らあ / ラー
Other kana based on Braille
りゃ / リャ
rya
りゃあ / リャー
ryā
Character information
Preview
Unicode nameHIRAGANA LETTER RAKATAKANA LETTER RAHALFWIDTH KATAKANA LETTER RAKATAKANA LETTER SMALL RACIRCLED KATAKANA RA
Encodingsdecimalhexdecimalhexdecimalhexdecimalhexdecimalhex
Unicode12425U+308912521U+30E965431U+FF9712795U+31FB13046U+32F6
UTF-8227 130 137E3 82 89227 131 169E3 83 A9239 190 151EF BE 97227 135 187E3 87 BB227 139 182E3 8B B6
Numeric character referenceららララララㇻㇻ㋶㋶
Shift JIS (plain)[1]130 23182 E7131 13783 89215D7
Shift JIS-2004[2]130 23182 E7131 13783 89215D7131 24883 F8
EUC-JP (plain)[3]164 233A4 E9165 233A5 E9142 2158E D7
EUC-JIS-2004[4]164 233A4 E9165 233A5 E9142 2158E D7166 250A6 FA
GB 18030[5]164 233A4 E9165 233A5 E9132 49 155 4984 31 9B 31129 57 189 5381 39 BD 35
EUC-KR[6] / UHC[7]170 233AA E9171 233AB E9
Big5 (non-ETEN kana)[8]198 237C6 ED199 163C7 A3
Big5 (ETEN / HKSCS)[9]199 112C7 70199 229C7 E5

See also

References

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