Ra (kana)
Character of the Japanese writing system
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).
01Other communicative representations
| Japanese radiotelephony alphabet | Wabun code |
| ラジオのラ Rajio no "Ra" |
▄ ▄ ▄ ⓘ |
| Japanese Navy Signal Flag | Japanese semaphore | Japanese manual syllabary (fingerspelling) | Braille dots-15 Japanese Braille |
- Full Braille representation
| ら / ラ in Japanese Braille | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | ||
| Preview | ら | ラ | ﾗ | ㇻ | ㋶ | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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) | 130 231 | 82 E7 | 131 137 | 83 89 | 215 | D7 | ||||
| Shift JIS-2004 | 130 231 | 82 E7 | 131 137 | 83 89 | 215 | D7 | 131 248 | 83 F8 | ||
| EUC-JP (plain) | 164 233 | A4 E9 | 165 233 | A5 E9 | 142 215 | 8E D7 | ||||
| EUC-JIS-2004 | 164 233 | A4 E9 | 165 233 | A5 E9 | 142 215 | 8E D7 | 166 250 | A6 FA | ||
| GB 18030 | 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 / UHC | 170 233 | AA E9 | 171 233 | AB E9 | ||||||
| Big5 (non-ETEN kana) | 198 237 | C6 ED | 199 163 | C7 A3 | ||||||
| Big5 (ETEN / HKSCS) | 199 112 | C7 70 | 199 229 | C7 E5 | ||||||
Sources and credits
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Images, from Wikimedia Commons:
- Hiragana ら stroke order animation.gif by Sirgazil, CC0
- Katakana ラ stroke order animation.gif by Sirgazil, CC0
- ら-bw.png by No machine-readable author provided. D.328 assumed (based on copyright claims)., CC BY-SA 3.0
- ラ-bw.png by No machine-readable author provided. D.328 assumed (based on copyright claims)., CC BY-SA 3.0
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