Ro (kana)
Character of the Japanese writing system
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Ro (hiragana: ろ, katakana: ロ) (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?]
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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 morae with one of two different vowel sounds, which merged in later pronunciation | |||
Stroke order
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Other communicative representations
| Japanese radiotelephony alphabet | Wabun code |
| 口ーマの口 Rōma no "Ro" |
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| 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 | ||
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| 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 | ||||||
