Ro (kana)

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FieldValue
Hiragana imageJapanese_Hiragana_kyokashotai_RO.svg
Katakana imageJapanese_Katakana_kyokashotai_RO.svg
Transliterationro
Hiragana Manyogana呂
Katakana Manyogana呂
Other Manyogana路 漏 呂 侶
Braille[[File:Japanese Ro Braille.svg
UnicodeU+308D, U+30ED
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footnoteThese Man'yōgana originally represented morae with one of two different vowel sounds, which merged in later pronunciation
Spellingローマのロ Rōma no "ro"
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|Hiragana image =Japanese_Hiragana_kyokashotai_RO.svg |Katakana image = Japanese_Katakana_kyokashotai_RO.svg |Transliteration = ro |Hiragana Manyogana = 呂 |Katakana Manyogana = 呂 |Other Manyogana = 路 漏 呂 侶 |Braille = [[File:Japanese Ro Braille.svg|32px|⠚]] |Unicode = U+308D, U+30ED |flag1=7|flag2=8 | footnote = These Man'yōgana originally represented morae with one of two different vowel sounds, which merged in later pronunciation |Spelling= ローマのロ Rōma no "ro"

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 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.

::data[format=table] | Form | Rōmaji | Hiragana | Katakana | Normal r- (ら行 ra-gyō) | |---|---|---|---|---| | ro | ろ | ロ | | | | rou roo rō | ろう, ろぅ ろお, ろぉ ろー | ロウ, ロゥ ロオ, ロォ ロー | | | ::

Stroke order

::data[format=table] | [[File:Hiragana ろ stroke order animation.gif|thumb|upright|alt=Stroke order in writing ろ|Stroke order in writing ろ]] | [[File:Katakana ロ stroke order animation.gif|thumb|upright|alt=Stroke order in writing ロ|Stroke order in writing ロ]] | |---|---| ::

::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9c/ろ-bw.png" caption="Stroke order in writing ろ"] ::

::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/08/ロ-bw.png" caption="Stroke order in writing 口"] ::

Other communicative representations

  • Full Braille representation ::data[format=table] | ろ / 口 in Japanese Braille | |---| | ろ / 口 ro | | りょ / リョ ryo | | | ::

  • Computer encodings |308D|name1=Hiragana Letter Ro |53E3|name2=Katakana Letter Ro |FF9B|name3=Halfwidth Katakana Letter Ro |31FF|name4=Katakana Letter Small Ro |32FA|name5=Circled Katakana Ro |map1=Shift JIS (plain)|map1char1=82 EB|map1char2=83 8D|map1char3=DB |map2=Shift JIS-2004|map2char1=82 EB|map2char2=83 8D|map2char3=DB|map2char4=83 FC |map3=EUC-JP (plain)|map3char1=A4 ED|map3char2=A5 ED|map3char3=8E DB |map4=EUC-JIS-2004|map4char1=A4 ED|map4char2=A5 ED|map4char3=8E DB|map4char4=A6 FE |map5=GB 18030|map5char1=A4 ED|map5char2=A5 ED|map5char3=84 31 9B 35|map5char4=81 39 BD 39 |map6=EUC-KR / UHC|map6char1=AA ED|map6char2=AB ED |map7=Big5 (non-ETEN kana)|map7char1=C6 F1|map7char2=C7 A7 |map8=Big5 (ETEN / HKSCS)|map8char1=C7 74|map8char2=C7 E9

References

References

  1. Unicode Consortium. (2015-12-02). "Shift-JIS to Unicode".
  2. Project X0213. (2009-05-03). "Shift_JIS-2004 (JIS X 0213:2004 Appendix 1) vs Unicode mapping table".
  3. "EUC-JP-2007". [[International Components for Unicode]].
  4. Project X0213. (2009-05-03). "EUC-JIS-2004 (JIS X 0213:2004 Appendix 3) vs Unicode mapping table".
  5. Standardization Administration of China (SAC). (2005-11-18). "GB 18030-2005: Information Technology—Chinese coded character set".
  6. "IBM-970". [[International Components for Unicode]].
  7. Steele, Shawn. (2000). "cp949 to Unicode table". [[Microsoft]] / [[Unicode Consortium]].
  8. Unicode Consortium. (2015-12-02). "BIG5 to Unicode table (complete)".
  9. van Kesteren, Anne. "big5". [[WHATWG]].

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