Wa (kana)
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transliteration | wa | |||
hiragana origin | 和 | |||
katakana origin | 和 |
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わ, in hiragana, or ワ in katakana, is one of the Japanese kana, which each represent one mora. It represents [wa] and has origins in the character 和. There is also a small ゎ/ヮ, that is used to write the morae /kwa/ and /gwa/ (くゎ, ぐゎ), which are obsolete in contemporary standard Japanese but still exist in the Ryukyuan languages. Katakana ワ is also sometimes written with dakuten, ヷ, to represent a /va/ sound in foreign words; however, most IMEs lack a convenient way to write this. It is far more common to represent the /va/ sound with the combination ヴァ.
Form | Rōmaji | Hiragana | Katakana |
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Normal w- (わ行 wa-gyō) |
wa | わ | ワ |
waa wā, wah |
わあ, わぁ わー |
ワア, ワァ ワー |
The kana は (ha) is read as “wa” when it represents a particle.
Stroke order
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Other representations
Character | わ | ワ | ワ | ゎ | ヮ | |||||
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Unicode name | HIRAGANA LETTER WA | KATAKANA LETTER WA | HALFWIDTH KATAKANA LETTER WA | HIRAGANA LETTER SMALL WA | KATAKANA LETTER SMALL WA | |||||
Encodings | decimal | hex | decimal | hex | decimal | hex | decimal | hex | decimal | hex |
Unicode | 12431 | U+308F | 12527 | U+30EF | 65436 | U+FF9C | 12430 | U+308E | 12526 | U+30EE |
UTF-8 | 227 130 143 | E3 82 8F | 227 131 175 | E3 83 AF | 239 190 156 | EF BE 9C | 227 130 142 | E3 82 8E | 227 131 174 | E3 83 AE |
Numeric character reference | わ | わ | ワ | ワ | ワ | ワ | ゎ | ゎ | ヮ | ヮ |
Shift JIS | 130 237 | 82 ED | 131 143 | 83 8F | 220 | DC | 130 236 | 82 EC | 131 142 | 83 8E |
- Braille
わ / ワ in Japanese Braille | |||
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わ / ワ wa | ヷ va | わあ / ワー wā | ヷー vā |
Look up わ or ワ in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. |
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