Ri (kana)

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ri
hiragana katakana
transliteration	ri
hiragana origin	利
katakana origin	利
Man'yōgana	里 理 利 梨 隣 入 煎
spelling kana	りんごのリ Ringo no "ri"
unicode	U+308A, U+30EA
braille

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] (listen). 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 ゜り゚ in hiragana, and リ゚ in katakana was introduced to represent [li] in the early 20th century.

The hiragana character may also be written as a single stroke.^[1]

Stroke order[]

Alternative writing of the ri hiragana with one stroke

Stroke order in writing り

Stroke order in writing リ

Stroke order in writing り

Stroke order in writing リ

Other communicative representations[]

Japanese radiotelephony alphabet	Wabun code
りんごのリ Ringo no "Ri"	▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄

Japanese Navy Signal Flag	Japanese semaphore	Japanese manual syllabary (fingerspelling)	Braille dots-125 Japanese Braille

• Full Braille representation

り / リ in Japanese Braille		R + Yōon braille
り / リ ri	りい / リー rī	りゃ / リャ rya	りゃあ / リャー ryā	りゅ / リュ ryu	りゅう / リュー ryū	りょ / リョ ryo	りょう / リョー ryō

• Computer encodings

See also[]

Look up り or リ in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

• Japanese phonology
• Yori (kana)
• IJ (digraph), a Dutch digraph that is sometimes written in a manner resembling the katakana リ

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