Ri (kana)
Character of the Japanese writing system
Ri (hiragana: り, katakana: リ) is one of the Japanese kana, each of which represents one mora. Both are written with two strokes and both represent the sound [ɾi] ⓘ. Both originate from the character 利. The Ainu language uses a small katakana ㇼ to represent a final r sound after an i sound (イㇼ ir).
The hiragana character may also be written as a single stroke.
01Other communicative representations
| Japanese radiotelephony alphabet | Wabun code |
| りんごのリ Ringo no "Ri" |
▄▄▄ ▄▄▄ ▄ ⓘ |
| Japanese Navy Signal Flag | Japanese semaphore | Japanese manual syllabary (fingerspelling) | Braille dots-125 Japanese Braille |
- Full Braille representation
| り / リ in Japanese Braille | R + Yōon braille | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| り / リ ri | りい / リー rī | りゃ / リャ rya | りゃあ / リャー ryā | りゅ / リュ ryu | りゅう / リュー ryū | りょ / リョ ryo | りょう / リョー ryō |
| Preview | り | リ | ﾘ | ㇼ | ㋷ | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unicode name | HIRAGANA LETTER RI | KATAKANA LETTER RI | HALFWIDTH KATAKANA LETTER RI | KATAKANA LETTER SMALL RI | CIRCLED KATAKANA RI | |||||
| Encodings | decimal | hex | dec | hex | dec | hex | dec | hex | dec | hex |
| Unicode | 12426 | U+308A | 12522 | U+30EA | 65432 | U+FF98 | 12796 | U+31FC | 13047 | U+32F7 |
| UTF-8 | 227 130 138 | E3 82 8A | 227 131 170 | E3 83 AA | 239 190 152 | EF BE 98 | 227 135 188 | E3 87 BC | 227 139 183 | E3 8B B7 |
| Numeric character reference | り | り | リ | リ | ﾘ | ﾘ | ㇼ | ㇼ | ㋷ | ㋷ |
| Shift JIS (plain) | 130 232 | 82 E8 | 131 138 | 83 8A | 216 | D8 | ||||
| Shift JIS-2004 | 130 232 | 82 E8 | 131 138 | 83 8A | 216 | D8 | 131 249 | 83 F9 | ||
| EUC-JP (plain) | 164 234 | A4 EA | 165 234 | A5 EA | 142 216 | 8E D8 | ||||
| EUC-JIS-2004 | 164 234 | A4 EA | 165 234 | A5 EA | 142 216 | 8E D8 | 166 251 | A6 FB | ||
| GB 18030 | 164 234 | A4 EA | 165 234 | A5 EA | 132 49 155 50 | 84 31 9B 32 | 129 57 189 54 | 81 39 BD 36 | ||
| EUC-KR / UHC | 170 234 | AA EA | 171 234 | AB EA | ||||||
| Big5 (non-ETEN kana) | 198 238 | C6 EE | 199 164 | C7 A4 | ||||||
| Big5 (ETEN / HKSCS) | 199 113 | C7 71 | 199 230 | C7 E6 | ||||||
Sources and credits
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Images, from Wikimedia Commons:
- Japanese Hiragana mincho RI alt.svg by Stunts1990, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Hiragana り stroke order animation.gif by Sirgazil, CC0
- Katakana リ stroke order animation.gif by Sirgazil, CC0
- り-bw.png by No machine-readable author provided. D.328 assumed (based on copyright claims)., CC BY-SA 3.0
- リ-bw.png by No machine-readable author provided. D.328 assumed (based on copyright claims)., CC BY-SA 3.0
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