Ra (hiragana: ら; katakana: ラ) is one of the Japanese kana, which each represent one mora. Both versions are written with two strokes and have origins in the character 良; both characters represent the sound [ɾa] ⓘ. The Ainu language uses a small katakana ㇻ to represent a final r sound after an a sound (アㇻ ar). The combination of an R-column kana letter with handakuten ゜- ら゚ in hiragana, and ラ゚ in katakana was introduced to represent [la] in the early 20th century.[according to whom?]
| ra | |||
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| transliteration | ra | ||
| hiragana origin | 良 | ||
| katakana origin | 良 | ||
| Man'yōgana | 良 浪 郎 楽 羅 等 | ||
| spelling kana | ラジオのラ Rajio no "ra" | ||
| unicode | U+3089, U+30E9 | ||
| braille |  | ||
| Form | Rōmaji | Hiragana | Katakana |
|---|---|---|---|
| Normal r- (ら行 ra-gyō) |
ra | ら | ラ |
| raa rā |
らあ らー |
ラア ラー |
Stroke order
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Other communicative representations
edit| Japanese radiotelephony alphabet | Wabun code |
| ラジオのラ Rajio no "Ra" |
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| Japanese Navy Signal Flag | Japanese semaphore | Japanese manual syllabary (fingerspelling) | Braille dots-15 Japanese Braille |
- Full Braille representation
| ら / ラ in Japanese Braille | |||
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| ら / ラ ra |
らあ / ラー rā |
Other kana based on Braille ら | |
| りゃ / リャ rya |
りゃあ / リャー ryā | ||
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| Preview | ら | ラ | ﾗ | ㇻ | ㋶ | |||||
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| Unicode name | HIRAGANA LETTER RA | KATAKANA LETTER RA | HALFWIDTH KATAKANA LETTER RA | KATAKANA LETTER SMALL RA | CIRCLED KATAKANA RA | |||||
| Encodings | decimal | hex | dec | hex | dec | hex | dec | hex | dec | hex |
| Unicode | 12425 | U+3089 | 12521 | U+30E9 | 65431 | U+FF97 | 12795 | U+31FB | 13046 | U+32F6 |
| UTF-8 | 227 130 137 | E3 82 89 | 227 131 169 | E3 83 A9 | 239 190 151 | EF BE 97 | 227 135 187 | E3 87 BB | 227 139 182 | E3 8B B6 |
| Numeric character reference | ら |
ら |
ラ |
ラ |
ﾗ |
ﾗ |
ㇻ |
ㇻ |
㋶ |
㋶ |
| Shift JIS (plain)[1] | 130 231 | 82 E7 | 131 137 | 83 89 | 215 | D7 | ||||
| Shift JIS-2004[2] | 130 231 | 82 E7 | 131 137 | 83 89 | 215 | D7 | 131 248 | 83 F8 | ||
| EUC-JP (plain)[3] | 164 233 | A4 E9 | 165 233 | A5 E9 | 142 215 | 8E D7 | ||||
| EUC-JIS-2004[4] | 164 233 | A4 E9 | 165 233 | A5 E9 | 142 215 | 8E D7 | 166 250 | A6 FA | ||
| GB 18030[5] | 164 233 | A4 E9 | 165 233 | A5 E9 | 132 49 155 49 | 84 31 9B 31 | 129 57 189 53 | 81 39 BD 35 | ||
| EUC-KR[6] / UHC[7] | 170 233 | AA E9 | 171 233 | AB E9 | ||||||
| Big5 (non-ETEN kana)[8] | 198 237 | C6 ED | 199 163 | C7 A3 | ||||||
| Big5 (ETEN / HKSCS)[9] | 199 112 | C7 70 | 199 229 | C7 E5 | ||||||
See also
editReferences
edit- The Compact Nelson Japanese-English Character Dictionary, (Andrew N Nelson, John H Haig) Tuttle Publishing, 1999
- ^ Unicode Consortium (2015-12-02) [1994-03-08]. "Shift-JIS to Unicode".
- ^ Project X0213 (2009-05-03). "Shift_JIS-2004 (JIS X 0213:2004 Appendix 1) vs Unicode mapping table".
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ Unicode Consortium; IBM. "EUC-JP-2007". International Components for Unicode.
- ^ Project X0213 (2009-05-03). "EUC-JIS-2004 (JIS X 0213:2004 Appendix 3) vs Unicode mapping table".
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ Standardization Administration of China (SAC) (2005-11-18). GB 18030-2005: Information Technology—Chinese coded character set.
- ^ Unicode Consortium; IBM. "IBM-970". International Components for Unicode.
- ^ Steele, Shawn (2000). "cp949 to Unicode table". Microsoft / Unicode Consortium.
- ^ Unicode Consortium (2015-12-02) [1994-02-11]. "BIG5 to Unicode table (complete)".
- ^ van Kesteren, Anne. "big5". Encoding Standard. WHATWG.
