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Contents 1 Translingual 1.1 Syllable 2 Japanese 2.1 Etymology 2.2 Hiragana character 2.2.1 Related terms 2.3 Suffix

[edit] Translingual

The Hiragana script
あぁ	かゕが	さざ	ただ	な	はばぱ	ま	やゃ	ら	わゎ	ん
いぃ	きぎ	しじ	ちぢ	に	ひびぴ	み		り	ゐ
うぅゔ	くぐ	すず	つっづ	ぬ	ふぶぷ	む	ゆゅ	る
えぇ	けゖげ	せぜ	てで	ね	へべぺ	め		れ	ゑ
おぉ	こご	そぞ	とど	の	ほぼぽ	も	よょ	ろ	を
Additional symbols ーゝゞゟ
ら Unicode: U+3089Katakana: ラHepburn romanization: raNihon-shiki romanization: raPolivanov cyrillization: раJapanese braille: ⠑

[edit] Syllable

ら

1. The hiragana syllable at ら行あ段 (row RA, section A) in a gojūon table.

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Stroke order

[edit] Etymology

Derived in the Heian period from writing the man'yōgana kanji 良 in the cursive sōsho style.

[edit] Hiragana character

ら (romaji ra)

1. The /ra/ syllable.
2. The thirty-ninth character in the gojūon ordering of hiragana. The previous character is よ and the next character is り. The equivalent katakana character is ラ.

[edit] Related terms

• For a list of words starting with ら (ra) see: Special:Allpages/ら

[edit] Suffix

ら (romaji ra)

1. 等: pluralizing suffix, as in 彼等, そこら. Usually written with the kana form.
2. (colloquial) imperfective form of the suffix る.