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Low class consonant · letter 35 of 44

ร ro ruea

ร (ro ruea) is a low-class consonant named after เรือ, “boat”. At the start of a syllable it is /r/, written r in RTGS; at the end of one it is /n/ (n).

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รร เรือro ruea · boat
Thai name
ร เรือ · ro ruea
Name word
เรือ, boat
Class
Low class
At the start of a syllable
/r/ · RTGS r
At the end of a syllable
/n/ · RTGS n
Unicode
U+0E23 · THAI CHARACTER RO RUA
In HTML
ร or ร
Kedmanee key
I
Pattachote key
T

How it sounds

A tapped or trilled r in careful speech; in everyday talk many speakers say it as l. At the end of a syllable it is read n: อาหาร ahan.

In clusters such as ปร and กร it is often dropped in casual speech.

Easy to mistake for ธ tho thong: compare them at a large size in the grid below.

Class and tone

With no mark, a low-class letter gives the mid tone in a live syllable; in a dead one the tone is high when the vowel is short and falling when it is long. Mai ek gives falling and mai tho high.

Syllables with ร and the vowel า
SpellingSyllableTone
No mark, live syllable (long vowel)ราMid
No mark, dead syllable, short vowelระHigh
No mark, dead syllable, long vowelรากFalling
Mai ekร่าFalling
Mai thoร้าHigh
Mai tri–not used with this class
Mai chattawa–not used with this class

The syllables show the rule, not words to learn. The tone rules explain live and dead syllables.

Words with ร

ThaiRTGSMeaning
รักrakto love
ร้อนronhot
เรียนrianto study
ราคาrakhaprice
อาหารahanfood

RTGS shows neither tone nor vowel length; type a word into the font tester to see it in every font.

ร in every font

The letter in each of the 61 families you can download here, in its regular style. Looped faces start the stroke from a small circle; loopless ones leave it out. Each card opens the family’s page.