り

Character	り
Unicode name	HIRAGANA LETTER RI
Codepoint	U+308A

Japanese

Stroke order

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA: [ɾi]

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Syllable

り (Hepburn romanization ri)

1. The hiragana syllable り (ri), whose equivalent in katakana is リ (ri). It is the fortieth syllable of the gojūon order, and its position in gojūon tables is ら行い段 (RA-gyō, I-dan; “row RA, section I”).

Related terms

• For a list of words starting with り (ri) see: Special:Allpages/り

See also

• (Hiragana) 平仮名; あぁ, いぃ, うぅゔ, えぇ, おぉ, かゕが, きぎ, くぐ, けゖげ, こご, さざ, しじ, すず, せぜ, そぞ, ただ, ちぢ, つっづ, てで, とど, な, に, ぬ, ね, の, はばぱ, ひびぴ, ふぶぷ, へべぺ, ほぼぽ, ま, み, む, め, も, やゃ, ゆゅ, よょ, ら, り, る, れ, ろ, わゎ, ゐ, ゑ, を, ん, ー, ゝ, ゞ, ゟ