Ro (kana)
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For other uses, see Ro (disambiguation).
ろ, in hiragana, or ロ 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?]
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transliteration | ro | ||
hiragana origin | 呂 | ||
katakana origin | 呂 | ||
Man'yōgana | 路 漏 呂 侶 | ||
spelling kana | ローマのロ Rōma no "ro" | ||
unicode | U+308D, U+30ED | ||
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Note: These Man'yōgana originally represented syllables with one of two different vowel sounds, which merged in later pronunciation |
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