ら

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Character	ら
Unicode name	HIRAGANA LETTER RA
Codepoint	U+3089

See also ち

Japanese

Stroke order

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ra/, [ɺ̠ä]

Etymology 1

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

Syllable

ら (Hepburn romanization ra)

1. The hiragana syllable ら (ra), whose equivalent in katakana is ラ (ra). It is the thirty-ninth syllable of the gojūon order, and its position in gojūon tables is ら行あ段 (RA-gyō, A-dan; “row RA, section A”).

Related terms

• For a list of words starting with ら (ra) see: Special:Allpages/ら

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

Etymology 2

From Old Japanese. Verb conjugation ending.

Suffix

ら (romaji ra)

1. (colloquial) imperfective form of the suffix る.

Etymology 3

Reading of various kanji.

Suffix

ら (romaji ra)

1. 等: pluralizing suffix, as in 彼等, そこら. Usually spelled in hiragana.