In this lesson you are going to learn how to read and write "ら", "り", "る", "れ", "ろ".
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 ra (help·info)
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The face of someone enjoying the smell of their ramen. Draw his eyebrow first, then his nose and mouth. It looks like a rattled number five.
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- らくだ (rakuda) camel
- らっぱ (rappa) trumpet
- らば (raba) mule
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ri (help·info)
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- It's the nose and cheek of Richard.
- It's a repeat (ri) of い (i) with the lengths of the lines inversed.
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- りんご (ringo) apple
- りす (risu) squirrel
- りゅう (ryuu) dragon
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Note: The handwritten form varies slightly from the printed form り
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ru (help·info)
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- The arm and closed fist of a student who has to hold buckets of water out in the hall because he broke the rules.
- A boat hit a message in a rum bottle (the upper part being the boat, the lower the corked bottle).
- It's a mouth, and it's rude to eat with your mouth open.
- Follow your money as it floats down into the toilet and is flushed, which you rue.
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- るす (rusu) absency (from home)
- るい (rui) class
- るつぼ (rutsubo) melting pot
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re (help·info)
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- The t on the left is the end of a pier, and its builder recommends replacing it.
- You can distinguish it from ね and わ because it has the tip of the second wave, visible on the right
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- れきし (rekishi) history
- れいそく (reisoku) your son
- れい (rei) spirit, ghost
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ro (help·info)
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- It's the front tip of a row boat riding a wave.
- It's the tail and hindquarter of a roaring lion.
- You can distinguish it from る because 'ro' doesn't have the circle at the bottom; the 'o' is in 'ro', not in its character.
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- ろく (roku) six
- ろうそく (rousoku) candle
- ろんぶん (ronbun) essay, thesis, dissertation
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