Ru (kana)

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ru
hiragana
japanese hiragana ru
katakana
japanese katakana ru
transliterationru, lu
hiragana origin
katakana origin
Man'yōgana留 流 類
spelling kana留守居のル Rusui no "ru"
unicodeU+308B, U+30EB
braille⠙

, in hiragana, or in katakana, is one of the Japanese kana, each of which represent one mora. The hiragana is written in one stroke; the katakana in two. Both represent the sound [ɾɯ] . The Ainu language uses a small katakana ㇽ to represent a final r sound after an u sound (ウㇽ ur). The combination of an R-column kana letter with handakuten ゜- る゚ in hiragana, and ル゚ in katakana was introduced to represent [lu] in the early 20th century.[according to whom?]

Form Rōmaji Hiragana Katakana
Normal r-
(ら行 ra-gyō)
ru
ruu, rwu
るう, るぅ
るー
ルウ, ルゥ
ルー
Other additional forms
Form (rw-)
Romaji Hiragana Katakana
rwa るぁ, るゎ ルァ, ルヮ
rwi るぃ ルィ
(rwu) (るぅ) (ルゥ)
rwe るぇ ルェ
rwo るぉ ルォ

Stroke order[edit]

Stroke order in writing る
Stroke order in writing る
Stroke order in writing ル
Stroke order in writing ル

The hiragana for ru (る) is made with one stroke, and its katakana form (ル) is made with two.

る (hiragana) begins with a horizontal stroke to the right, followed by a slightly longer, angular stroke going down and to the left. Finally, a curve and loop are added to the bottom that somewhat resembles the hiragana no (の). The character as a whole is visually similar to the hiragana for ro (ろ).

ル (katakana) is made by first making a curved stroke going down and to the left, and is followed by a stroke that first goes straight down, and then a curved line going up and to the right.

Stroke order in writing る
Stroke order in writing ル

Other communicative representations[edit]

  • Full Braille representation
る / ル in Japanese Braille
る / ル
ru
るう / ルー
Other kana based on Braille
りゅ / リュ
ryu
りゅう / リュー
ryū
⠙ (braille pattern dots-145) ⠙ (braille pattern dots-145)⠒ (braille pattern dots-25) ⠈ (braille pattern dots-4)⠙ (braille pattern dots-145) ⠈ (braille pattern dots-4)⠙ (braille pattern dots-145)⠒ (braille pattern dots-25)
Character information
Preview
Unicode name HIRAGANA LETTER RU KATAKANA LETTER RU HALFWIDTH KATAKANA LETTER RU KATAKANA LETTER SMALL RU CIRCLED KATAKANA RU
Encodings decimal hex dec hex dec hex dec hex dec hex
Unicode 12427 U+308B 12523 U+30EB 65433 U+FF99 12797 U+31FD 13048 U+32F8
UTF-8 227 130 139 E3 82 8B 227 131 171 E3 83 AB 239 190 153 EF BE 99 227 135 189 E3 87 BD 227 139 184 E3 8B B8
Numeric character reference る る ル ル ル ル ㇽ ㇽ ㋸ ㋸
Shift JIS (plain)[1] 130 233 82 E9 131 139 83 8B 217 D9
Shift JIS-2004[2] 130 233 82 E9 131 139 83 8B 217 D9 131 250 83 FA
EUC-JP (plain)[3] 164 235 A4 EB 165 235 A5 EB 142 217 8E D9
EUC-JIS-2004[4] 164 235 A4 EB 165 235 A5 EB 142 217 8E D9 166 252 A6 FC
GB 18030[5] 164 235 A4 EB 165 235 A5 EB 132 49 155 51 84 31 9B 33 129 57 189 55 81 39 BD 37
EUC-KR[6] / UHC[7] 170 235 AA EB 171 235 AB EB
Big5 (non-ETEN kana)[8] 198 239 C6 EF 199 165 C7 A5
Big5 (ETEN / HKSCS)[9] 199 114 C7 72 199 231 C7 E7

See also[edit]

References[edit]

  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.