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ら (ra) in hiragana: pronunciation, stroke order and examples

The hiragana ら is read "ra". Stroke order step by step, the same sound in katakana (ラ), the look-alikes not to confuse and example words.

Reading
ra
Same sound in katakana
ラ

Words with ら

  • 来週 らいしゅう — Next week
  • 来月 らいげつ — Next month
  • 来年 らいねん — Next year
  • 来 らい～ — next ~
  • 楽 らく — comfort, ease
  • 来日 らいにち — coming to Japan, visit to Japan

Stroke order · 2 strokes

  1. 1
  2. 2

Strokes: KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0).

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