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[edit] Translingual

The Hiragana script
Additional symbols
Unicode: U+3089Katakana: Hepburn romanization: raNihon-shiki romanization: raPolivanov cyrillization: раJapanese braille:

[edit] Syllable

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

[edit] Japanese

Stroke order
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[edit] Etymology

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

[edit] Hiragana character

(romaji ra)

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

[edit] Related terms

[edit] Suffix

(romaji ra)

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