ろ, in hiragana, or ロ in katakana, (Hepburn romanization, romanised as ''ro'') is one of the Japanese kana, each of which represents one Mora (linguistics), mora. The hiragana is written in one stroke, katakana in three. Both represent and both originate from the Chinese character 呂. The Ainu language#Writing, 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.
Stroke order
Other communicative representations
* Full Braille representation
* Character encoding, Computer encodings
See also
*Japanese phonology
References
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Specific kana