is one of the syllables in the Javanese script that represents the sounds /rɔ/, /ra/. It is transliterated to Latin as "ra", and sometimes in Indonesian orthography as "ro". It has another form (pasangan), which is , but represented by a single Unicode code point, U+A9AB.Campbell, George L. Compendium of the World's Languages. Vol. 1. New York: Routledge, 2000.Soemarmo, Marmo. "Javanese Script." Ohio Working Papers in Linguistics and Language Teaching 14.Winter (1995): 69-103.Daniels, Peter T and William Bright. The World's Writing Systems. Ed. Peter T Daniels and William Bright. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996.
Pasangan Its pasangan form , is located on the bottom side of the previous syllable. The pasangan only occurs if a word is ended with a consonant, and the next word starts with 'r', for example - anak raja (king's child). If it is located between a consonant and a vocal, it doesn't form a pasangan. Instead it uses a special panjingan called a cakra () or cakra keret (), for example - griya (house).
Murda The letter has a murda form, ꦬ.
Final consonant cannot became final consonant (e.g. ). It is replaced by layar (). For example: - layar (sail), not
Honorific form Some writers replaced with (ra agung) when addressing or discussing royal persons.
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Javanese script was added to the Unicode Standard in October, 2009 with the release of version 5.2.
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