What is り?

り is a Japanese hiragana character. It represents the mora "ri".

  • Pronunciation: It is pronounced approximately like the English "ri" as in "river".

  • Origin: It is derived from the simplified kanji character 利.

  • Usage: It's commonly used in writing Japanese words, loanwords, and grammatical particles. It forms part of the gojūon, the standard ordering of Japanese syllabary. It appears frequently in various words and grammatical structures.

  • Related Characters: It corresponds to the katakana character <a href="https://www.wikiwhat.page/kavramlar/リ"></a>, which serves the same phonetic function but is used for different types of words, primarily foreign loanwords.

  • Unicode: The Unicode code point for り is U+308A.

Here are some important subjects mentioned above as links:

  • <a href="https://www.wikiwhat.page/kavramlar/Hiragana">Hiragana</a>
  • <a href="https://www.wikiwhat.page/kavramlar/Mora">Mora</a>
  • <a href="https://www.wikiwhat.page/kavramlar/Kanji">Kanji</a>
  • <a href="https://www.wikiwhat.page/kavramlar/Gojūon">Gojūon</a>
  • <a href="https://www.wikiwhat.page/kavramlar/Katakana">Katakana</a>
  • <a href="https://www.wikiwhat.page/kavramlar/Unicode">Unicode</a>