る

See also ろ

Japanese

Stroke order

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

る (Hepburn romanization ru)

The hiragana syllable る (ru), whose equivalent in katakana is ル (ru). It is the forty-first syllable of the gojūon order, and its position in gojūon tables is ら行う段 (RA-gyō, U-dan; “row RA, section U”).

In some cases the suffix 〜る is used as a general method to form verbs (as a 五段活用 (godan katsuyō, “consonant stem conjugation, う-type verb”)), as in サボる (saboru), but this is much less productive than 〜する (-suru, “to do”).

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