る

Character	る
Unicode name	HIRAGANA LETTER RU
Codepoint	U+308B

See also ろ

Japanese

Stroke order

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ɺu͍/

Syllable

る (Hepburn romanization ru)

1. The hiragana syllable る (ru), whose equivalent in katakana is ル (ru). It is the forty-first syllable of the gojūon order, and its position in gojūon tables is ら行う段 (RA-gyō, U-dan; “row RA, section U”).

Usage notes

• In some cases the suffix 〜る is used as a general method to form verbs (as a 五段活用 (godan katsuyō, “consonant stem conjugation, う-type verb”)), as in サボる (saboru), but this is much less productive than 〜する (-suru, “to do”).

Related terms

• For a list of words starting with る (ru) see: Special:Allpages/る

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 ^[edit]