Ru (kana)
Character of the Japanese writing system
Ru (hiragana: る, katakana: ル) is one of the Japanese kana, each of which represent one mora. The hiragana is written in one stroke; the katakana in two. Both represent the sound [ɾɯ] ⓘ. The Ainu language uses a small katakana ㇽ to represent a final r sound after an u sound (ウㇽ ur).
01Stroke order
The hiragana for ru (る) is made with one stroke, and its katakana form (ル) is made with two.
る (hiragana) begins with a horizontal stroke to the right, followed by a slightly longer, angular stroke going down and to the left. Finally, a curve and loop are added to the bottom that somewhat resembles the hiragana no (の). The character as a whole is visually similar to the hiragana for ro (ろ).
ル (katakana) is made by first making a curved stroke going down and to the left, and is followed by a stroke that first goes straight down, and then a curved line going up and to the right.
02Other communicative representations
| Japanese radiotelephony alphabet | Wabun code |
| 留守居のル Rusui no "Ru" |
▄▄▄ ▄ ▄▄▄ ▄▄▄ ▄ ⓘ |
| Japanese Navy Signal Flag | Japanese semaphore | Japanese manual syllabary (fingerspelling) | Braille dots-145 Japanese Braille |
- Full Braille representation
| る / ル in Japanese Braille | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| る / ル ru | るう / ルー rū | Other kana based on Braille る | |
| りゅ / リュ ryu | りゅう / リュー ryū | ||
| Preview | る | ル | ﾙ | ㇽ | ㋸ | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unicode name | HIRAGANA LETTER RU | KATAKANA LETTER RU | HALFWIDTH KATAKANA LETTER RU | KATAKANA LETTER SMALL RU | CIRCLED KATAKANA RU | |||||
| Encodings | decimal | hex | dec | hex | dec | hex | dec | hex | dec | hex |
| Unicode | 12427 | U+308B | 12523 | U+30EB | 65433 | U+FF99 | 12797 | U+31FD | 13048 | U+32F8 |
| UTF-8 | 227 130 139 | E3 82 8B | 227 131 171 | E3 83 AB | 239 190 153 | EF BE 99 | 227 135 189 | E3 87 BD | 227 139 184 | E3 8B B8 |
| Numeric character reference | る | る | ル | ル | ﾙ | ﾙ | ㇽ | ㇽ | ㋸ | ㋸ |
| Shift JIS (plain) | 130 233 | 82 E9 | 131 139 | 83 8B | 217 | D9 | ||||
| Shift JIS-2004 | 130 233 | 82 E9 | 131 139 | 83 8B | 217 | D9 | 131 250 | 83 FA | ||
| EUC-JP (plain) | 164 235 | A4 EB | 165 235 | A5 EB | 142 217 | 8E D9 | ||||
| EUC-JIS-2004 | 164 235 | A4 EB | 165 235 | A5 EB | 142 217 | 8E D9 | 166 252 | A6 FC | ||
| GB 18030 | 164 235 | A4 EB | 165 235 | A5 EB | 132 49 155 51 | 84 31 9B 33 | 129 57 189 55 | 81 39 BD 37 | ||
| EUC-KR / UHC | 170 235 | AA EB | 171 235 | AB EB | ||||||
| Big5 (non-ETEN kana) | 198 239 | C6 EF | 199 165 | C7 A5 | ||||||
| Big5 (ETEN / HKSCS) | 199 114 | C7 72 | 199 231 | C7 E7 | ||||||
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Images, from Wikimedia Commons:
- Hiragana る stroke order animation.gif by Sirgazil, CC0
- Katakana ル stroke order animation.gif by Sirgazil, CC0
- る-bw.png by D.328 (talk · contribs), CC BY-SA 3.0
- ル-bw.png by No machine-readable author provided. D.328 assumed (based on copyright claims)., CC BY-SA 3.0
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