Ro (kana)

ro
hiragana katakana
transliteration	ro
hiragana origin	å‘‚
katakana origin	å‘‚

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 [ɽo] 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).

Form	Rōmaji	Hiragana	Katakana
Normal r- (ら行 ra-gyō)	Ro	ろ	ロ
	Rou Roo Rō, roh	ろう ろお ろー	ロウ ロオ ロー

Stroke order

Stroke order in writing ろ

Stroke order in writing ロ

Stroke order in writing ろ

Stroke order in writing ロ

Other communicative representations

• Computer encodings

Character	ろ		ロ		ﾛ		ㇿ
Unicode name	HIRAGANA LETTER RO		KATAKANA LETTER RO		HALFWIDTH KATAKANA LETTER RO		KATAKANA LETTER SMALL RO
Encodings	decimal	hex	decimal	hex	decimal	hex	decimal	hex
Unicode	12429	U+308D	12525	U+30ED	65435	U+FF9B	12799	U+31FF
UTF-8	227 130 141	E3 82 8D	227 131 173	E3 83 AD	239 190 155	EF BE 9B	227 135 191	E3 87 BF
Numeric character reference	ろ	ろ	ロ	ロ	ﾛ	ﾛ	ㇿ	ㇿ
Shift JIS	130 235	82 EB	131 141	83 8D	219	DB

• Braille

ろ / ロ in Japanese Braille
ろ / ロ ro	ろう / ロー rō	Other kana based on Braille ろ
		りょ / リョ ryo	りょう / リョー ryō

• Japanese semaphore

See also

• Japanese phonology