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Ri (kana)
Character of the Japanese writing system From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Ri (hiragana: り, katakana: リ) is one of the Japanese kana, each of which represent one mora. Both are written with two strokes and both represent the sound [ɾi] ⓘ. Both originate from the character 利. The Ainu language uses a small katakana ㇼ to represent a final r sound after an i sound (イㇼ ir). The combination of an R-column kana letter with handakuten ゜- り゚ in hiragana, and リ゚ in katakana was introduced to represent [li] in the early 20th century.[according to whom?]
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The hiragana character may also be written as a single stroke.[1]
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Stroke order

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Other communicative representations
Japanese radiotelephony alphabet | Wabun code |
りんごのリ Ringo no "Ri" |
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Japanese Navy Signal Flag | Japanese semaphore | Japanese manual syllabary (fingerspelling) | Braille dots-125 Japanese Braille |
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See also
- Japanese phonology
- Yori (kana)
- IJ (digraph), a Dutch digraph that is sometimes written in a manner resembling the katakana リ
References
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