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る (ru) in hiragana: pronunciation, stroke order and examples

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

Reading
ru
Same sound in katakana
ル
Not to confuse with
ろ ro

Words with る

  • 留守 るす — absence; not at home
  • 留守番 るすばん — care-taking, caretaker, house-watching
  • 類 るい — kind, class, family
  • 類推 るいすい — analogy
  • 類似 るいじ — analogous

Stroke order · 1 stroke

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Strokes: KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0).

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