Ra (kana)
Character of the Japanese writing system
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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] ⓘ. 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 handakuten ゜- ら゚ in hiragana, and ラ゚ in katakana was introduced to represent [la] in the early 20th century.[according to whom?]
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| Transliteration | ra | ||
| Hiragana origin | 良 | ||
| Katakana origin | 良 | ||
| Man'yōgana | 良 浪 郎 楽 羅 等 | ||
| Spelling kana | ラジオのラ Rajio no "ra" | ||
| Unicode | U+3089, U+30E9 | ||
| Braille |  | ||
Stroke order
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Other communicative representations
| Japanese radiotelephony alphabet | Wabun code |
| ラジオのラ Rajio no "Ra" |
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| Japanese Navy Signal Flag | Japanese semaphore | Japanese manual syllabary (fingerspelling) | Braille dots-15 Japanese Braille |
- Full Braille representation
| 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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| Preview | ら | ラ | ﾗ | ㇻ | ㋶ | |||||
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| Unicode name | HIRAGANA LETTER RA | KATAKANA LETTER RA | HALFWIDTH KATAKANA LETTER RA | KATAKANA LETTER SMALL RA | CIRCLED KATAKANA RA | |||||
| Encodings | decimal | hex | dec | hex | dec | hex | dec | hex | dec | hex |
| Unicode | 12425 | U+3089 | 12521 | U+30E9 | 65431 | U+FF97 | 12795 | U+31FB | 13046 | U+32F6 |
| 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 | 227 139 182 | E3 8B B6 |
| Numeric character reference | ら | ら | ラ | ラ | ﾗ | ﾗ | ㇻ | ㇻ | ㋶ | ㋶ |
| Shift JIS (plain)[1] | 130 231 | 82 E7 | 131 137 | 83 89 | 215 | D7 | ||||
| Shift JIS-2004[2] | 130 231 | 82 E7 | 131 137 | 83 89 | 215 | D7 | 131 248 | 83 F8 | ||
| EUC-JP (plain)[3] | 164 233 | A4 E9 | 165 233 | A5 E9 | 142 215 | 8E D7 | ||||
| EUC-JIS-2004[4] | 164 233 | A4 E9 | 165 233 | A5 E9 | 142 215 | 8E D7 | 166 250 | A6 FA | ||
| GB 18030[5] | 164 233 | A4 E9 | 165 233 | A5 E9 | 132 49 155 49 | 84 31 9B 31 | 129 57 189 53 | 81 39 BD 35 | ||
| EUC-KR[6] / UHC[7] | 170 233 | AA E9 | 171 233 | AB E9 | ||||||
| Big5 (non-ETEN kana)[8] | 198 237 | C6 ED | 199 163 | C7 A3 | ||||||
| Big5 (ETEN / HKSCS)[9] | 199 112 | C7 70 | 199 229 | C7 E5 | ||||||
