ら

See also: ち, 5, and ら゚

ら	U+3089, ら HIRAGANA LETTER RA

Japanese

Stroke order

Derived in the Heian period from writing the man'yōgana kanji 良 in the cursive sōsho style.

ら • (ra)

The hiragana syllable ら (ra). Its equivalent in katakana is ラ (ra). It is the thirty-ninth syllable in the gojūon order; its position is ら行あ段 (ra-gyō a-dan, “row ra, section a”).

From Old Japanese. Verb conjugation ending.

ら • (-ra)

For pronunciation and definitions of ら – see the following entry.

【等】3	[suffix] pluralizer [suffix] qualifier, softener: around abouts

(This term, ら (ra), is the hiragana spelling of the above term.)
For a list of all kanji read as ら, see Category:Japanese kanji read as ら.)