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Ri ( hiragana: り, katakana: リ) is one of the Japanese kana, each of which represent one
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. Both are written with two strokes and both represent the sound . Both originate from the character 利. The
Ainu language Ainu (, ), or more precisely Hokkaido Ainu, is a language spoken by a few elderly members of the Ainu people on the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido. It is a member of the Ainu language family, itself considered a language family isolate ...
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 iin the early 20th century. The hiragana character may also be written as a single stroke.


Stroke order


Other communicative representations

* Full Braille representation * Computer encodings


See also

* Japanese phonology *
Yori (kana) , read as ''yori'', is a kana ligature – a typographic ligature in the Japanese language – consisting of a combination of the hiragana graphs of (/yo/ ) and (/ri/ ), and thus represents their combined sound, より (/yori/ ) ''"from"''. It is ...
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IJ (digraph) IJ (lowercase ij; ; also encountered as deprecated codepoints IJ and ij) is a Digraph (orthography), digraph of the letters ''i'' and ''j''. Occurring in the Dutch language, it is sometimes considered a Ligature (writing), ligature, or a letter ...
, a Dutch digraph that is sometimes written in a manner resembling the katakana リ


References

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