Wa (kana)
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 Hiragana |
 Katakana |
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| Transliteration | wa | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Hiragana Man'yōgana: | 和 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Katakana Man'yōgana | 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.
[edit] Stroke order
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Look up わ or ワ in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. |
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