, in hiragana, or in katakana, (romanised as ro) is one of the Japanese kana, each of which represents one mora. The hiragana is written in one stroke, katakana in three. Both represent [ɾo] and both originate from the Chinese character 呂. The Ainu language uses a small ㇿ to represent a final r sound after an o sound (オㇿ or). The combination of an R-column kana letter with handakuten ゜ – ろ゚ in hiragana and ロ゚ in katakana – was introduced to represent [lo] in the early 20th century.[according to whom?]

ro
hiragana
japanese hiragana ro
katakana
japanese katakana ro
transliterationro
hiragana origin
katakana origin
Man'yōgana路 漏 呂 侶
spelling kanaローマのロ Rōma no "ro"
unicodeU+308D, U+30ED
braille⠚
Note: These Man'yōgana originally represented syllables with one of two different vowel sounds, which merged in later pronunciation
FormRōmajiHiraganaKatakana
Normal r-
(ら行 ra-gyō)
ro
rou
roo
ろう, ろぅ
ろお, ろぉ
ろー
ロウ, ロゥ
ロオ, ロォ
ロー

Stroke order

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Stroke order in writing ろ
Stroke order in writing ロ
Stroke order in writing ろ
Stroke order in writing 口

Other communicative representations

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  • Full Braille representation
ろ / 口 in Japanese Braille
ろ / 口
ro
ろう / 口ー
Other kana based on Braille
りょ / リョ
ryo
りょう / リョー
ryō
Character information
Preview
Unicode nameHIRAGANA LETTER ROKATAKANA LETTER ROHALFWIDTH KATAKANA LETTER ROKATAKANA LETTER SMALL ROCIRCLED KATAKANA RO
Encodingsdecimalhexdechexdechexdechexdechex
Unicode12429U+308D21475U+53E365435U+FF9B12799U+31FF13050U+32FA
UTF-8227 130 141E3 82 8D229 143 163E5 8F A3239 190 155EF BE 9B227 135 191E3 87 BF227 139 186E3 8B BA
Numeric character referenceろろ口口ロロㇿㇿ㋺㋺
Shift JIS (plain)[1]130 23582 EB131 14183 8D219DB
Shift JIS-2004[2]130 23582 EB131 14183 8D219DB131 25283 FC
EUC-JP (plain)[3]164 237A4 ED165 237A5 ED142 2198E DB
EUC-JIS-2004[4]164 237A4 ED165 237A5 ED142 2198E DB166 254A6 FE
GB 18030[5]164 237A4 ED165 237A5 ED132 49 155 5384 31 9B 35129 57 189 5781 39 BD 39
EUC-KR[6] / UHC[7]170 237AA ED171 237AB ED
Big5 (non-ETEN kana)[8]198 241C6 F1199 167C7 A7
Big5 (ETEN / HKSCS)[9]199 116C7 74199 233C7 E9

See also

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References

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  1. ^ Unicode Consortium (2015-12-02) [1994-03-08]. "Shift-JIS to Unicode".
  2. ^ 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)
  3. ^ Unicode Consortium; IBM. "EUC-JP-2007". International Components for Unicode.
  4. ^ 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)
  5. ^ Standardization Administration of China (SAC) (2005-11-18). GB 18030-2005: Information Technology—Chinese coded character set.
  6. ^ Unicode Consortium; IBM. "IBM-970". International Components for Unicode.
  7. ^ Steele, Shawn (2000). "cp949 to Unicode table". Microsoft / Unicode Consortium.
  8. ^ Unicode Consortium (2015-12-02) [1994-02-11]. "BIG5 to Unicode table (complete)".
  9. ^ van Kesteren, Anne. "big5". Encoding Standard. WHATWG.