Ro (kana)

, in hiragana, or 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] (listen) 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 ゜ろ゚ in hiragana, and ロ゚ in katakana was introduced to represent [lo] in the early 20th century.

Form Rōmaji Hiragana Katakana
Normal r-
(ら行 ra-gyō)
Ro
Rou
Roo
, roh
ろう
ろお
ろー
ロウ
ロオ
ロー
ro
hiragana
katakana
transliterationro
hiragana origin
katakana origin
Man'yōgana路 漏 呂 侶
spelling kanaローマのロ Rōma no "ro"
unicodeU+308D, U+30ED
braille
Note: These Man'yōgana originally represented syllables with one of two different vowel sounds, which merged in later pronunciation

Stroke order

Stroke order in writing ろ
Stroke order in writing ロ
Stroke order in writing ろ
Stroke order in writing ロ

Other communicative representations

  • Full Braille representation
ろ / ロ in Japanese Braille
ろ / ロ
ro
ろう / ロー
Other kana based on Braille
りょ / リョ
ryo
りょう / リョー
ryō
Character information
Preview
Unicode nameHIRAGANA LETTER ROKATAKANA LETTER ROHALFWIDTH KATAKANA LETTER ROKATAKANA LETTER SMALL ROCIRCLED KATAKANA RO
Encodingsdecimalhexdecimalhexdecimalhexdecimalhexdecimalhex
Unicode12429U+308D12525U+30ED65435U+FF9B12799U+31FF13050U+32FA
UTF-8227 130 141E3 82 8D227 131 173E3 83 AD239 190 155EF BE 9B227 135 191E3 87 BF227 139 186E3 8B BA
Numeric character referenceろろロロロロㇿㇿ㋺㋺
Shift JIS (plain)[1]130 23582 EB131 14183 8D219DB
Shift JIS-2004[2]130 23582 EB131 14183 8D219DB131 25283 FC
EUC-JP (plain)[3]164 237A4 ED165 237A5 ED142 2198E DB
EUC-JIS-2004[4]164 237A4 ED165 237A5 ED142 2198E DB166 254A6 FE
GB 18030[5]164 237A4 ED165 237A5 ED132 49 155 5384 31 9B 35129 57 189 5781 39 BD 39
EUC-KR[6] / UHC[7]170 237AA ED171 237AB ED
Big5 (non-ETEN kana)[8]198 241C6 F1199 167C7 A7
Big5 (ETEN / HKSCS)[9]199 116C7 74199 233C7 E9

See also

References

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