Ra (kana)
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{{Infobox kana
|Hiragana image =Japanese Hiragana kyokashotai RA.svg
|Katakana image = Japanese Katakana kyokashotai RA.svg
|Transliteration = ra
|Hiragana Manyogana = 良
|Katakana Manyogana = 良
|Other Manyogana = 良 浪 郎 楽 羅 等
|Braille = File:Japanese Ra Braille.svg
|Unicode = U+3089, U+30E9
|flag1=5|flag2=9
|Footnotes =
|Spelling =ラジオのラ Rajio no "ra"
}}
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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 {{IPA|ja|ɾa||Ja-Ra.oga}}. 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|date=May 2022}}
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!Form |
| rowspan="2"|Normal r- (ら行 ra-gyō) |ra |ら |ラ |
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| raa rā |らあ |ラア |
Stroke order
Other communicative representations
{{Letter reps|lang=Japanese|radio={{lang|ja|ラジオのラ}}|radio_trans=Rajio no "Ra"|morse=・・・ |morse_sound=S morse code.ogg|flag_img=ICS Sierra.svg|sign_img=|sem1=Japanese Semaphore Basic Stroke 5.svg|sem2=Japanese Semaphore Basic Stroke 9.svg|braille_img=Japanese Ra Braille.svg|braille=⠑}}
- Full Braille representation
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| colspan=4| ら / ラ in Japanese Braille | |||
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| rowspan=2| ら / ラ ra | rowspan=2| らあ / ラー rā | colspan=2| Other kana based on Braille ら | |
| りゃ / リャ rya | りゃあ / リャー ryā | ||
| {{Braille cell|type=kana|size=30px|ら}} | {{Braille cell|type=kana|size=30px|ら|25}} | {{Braille cell|type=kana|size=30px|4|ら}} | {{Braille cell|type=kana|size=30px|4|ら|25}} |
{{charmap
|3089|name1=Hiragana Letter Ra
|30E9|name2=Katakana Letter Ra
|FF97|name3=Halfwidth Katakana Letter Ra
|31FB|name4=Katakana Letter Small Ra
|32F6|name5=Circled Katakana Ra
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|map2=Shift JIS-2004{{cite web |url=http://x0213.org/codetable/sjis-0213-2004-std.txt |title=Shift_JIS-2004 (JIS X 0213:2004 Appendix 1) vs Unicode mapping table |date=2009-05-03 |author=Project X0213}}|map2char1=82 E7|map2char2=83 89|map2char3=D7|map2char4=83 F8
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|map5=GB 18030{{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/GB18030-2005|title=GB 18030-2005: Information Technology—Chinese coded character set|last=Standardization Administration of China (SAC)|date=2005-11-18}}|map5char1=A4 E9|map5char2=A5 E9|map5char3=84 31 9B 31|map5char4=81 39 BD 35
|map6=EUC-KR{{cite web |url=https://raw.githubusercontent.com/unicode-org/icu/master/icu4c/source/data/mappings/ibm-970_P110_P110-2006_U2.ucm |title=IBM-970 |author1=Unicode Consortium |author-link1=Unicode Consortium |author2=IBM |author-link2=IBM |work=International Components for Unicode}} / UHC{{cite web |url=https://www.unicode.org/Public/MAPPINGS/VENDORS/MICSFT/WINDOWS/CP949.TXT |title=cp949 to Unicode table |last=Steele |first=Shawn |publisher=Microsoft / Unicode Consortium |date=2000}}|map6char1=AA E9|map6char2=AB E9
|map7=Big5 (non-ETEN kana){{cite web |url=https://www.unicode.org/Public/MAPPINGS/OBSOLETE/EASTASIA/OTHER/BIG5.TXT |title=BIG5 to Unicode table (complete) |author=Unicode Consortium |author-link=Unicode Consortium |date=2015-12-02 |orig-year=1994-02-11}}|map7char1=C6 ED|map7char2=C7 A3
|map8=Big5 (ETEN / HKSCS){{cite web |url=https://encoding.spec.whatwg.org/big5.html |title=big5 |work=Encoding Standard |publisher=WHATWG |last=van Kesteren |first=Anne |author-link=Anne van Kesteren}}|map8char1=C7 70|map8char2=C7 E5
}}
See also
References
- The Compact Nelson Japanese-English Character Dictionary, (Andrew N Nelson, John H Haig) Tuttle Publishing, 1999
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