wa
hiragana
japanese hiragana wa		 katakana
japanese katakana wa
transliterationwa
hiragana origin和
katakana origin和
Man'yōgana和 丸 輪
spelling kanaわらびのワ Warabi no "wa"
unicodeU+308F, U+30EF
braille⠄

Wa (hiragana: わ, katakana: ワ) is one of the Japanese kana, which each represent one mora. The combination of a W-column kana letter with わ゙ in hiragana was introduced to represent [va] in the 19th century and 20th century. 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 almost obsolete in contemporary standard Japanese but still exist in the Ryukyuan languages. A few loanword such as シークヮーサー(shiikwaasa from Okinawan language) and ムジカ・アンティクヮ・ケルン (Musica Antiqua Köln, German early music group) contains this letter in Japanese. 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
Normal w-
(わ行 wa-gyō)		 wa わ ワ
waa
wā		 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

Stroke order in writing わ
Stroke order in writing わ
Stroke order in writing ワ
Stroke order in writing ワ
Stroke order in writing わ
Stroke order in writing ワ

Other communicative representations

  • Full Braille representation
わ / ワ in Japanese Braille
わ / ワ
wa		ヷ
va		わあ / ワー
wā		ヷー
vā
⠄ (braille pattern dots-3) ⠐ (braille pattern dots-5) ⠄ (braille pattern dots-3) ⠄ (braille pattern dots-3) ⠒ (braille pattern dots-25) ⠐ (braille pattern dots-5) ⠄ (braille pattern dots-3) ⠒ (braille pattern dots-25)
Character information
Previewわワﾜ㋻
Unicode name HIRAGANA LETTER WA KATAKANA LETTER WA HALFWIDTH KATAKANA LETTER WA CIRCLED KATAKANA WA
Encodingsdecimalhexdechexdechexdechex
Unicode12431U+308F12527U+30EF65436U+FF9C13051U+32FB
UTF-8227 130 143E3 82 8F227 131 175E3 83 AF239 190 156EF BE 9C227 139 187E3 8B BB
Numeric character referenceわわワワﾜﾜ㋻㋻
Shift JIS[1]130 23782 ED131 14383 8F220DC
EUC-JP[2]164 239A4 EF165 239A5 EF142 2208E DC
GB 18030[3]164 239A4 EF165 239A5 EF132 49 155 5484 31 9B 36
EUC-KR[4] / UHC[5]170 239AA EF171 239AB EF
Big5 (non-ETEN kana)[6]198 243C6 F3199 169C7 A9
Big5 (ETEN / HKSCS)[7]199 118C7 76199 235C7 EB
Character information
Previewゎヮヷ
Unicode name HIRAGANA LETTER SMALL WA KATAKANA LETTER SMALL WA KATAKANA LETTER VA
Encodingsdecimalhexdechexdechex
Unicode12430U+308E12526U+30EE12535U+30F7
UTF-8227 130 142E3 82 8E227 131 174E3 83 AE227 131 183E3 83 B7
Numeric character referenceゎゎヮヮヷヷ
Shift JIS (plain)[1]130 23682 EC131 14283 8E
Shift JIS (KanjiTalk 7)[8]130 23682 EC131 14283 8E136 10688 6A
Shift JIS-2004[9]130 23682 EC131 14283 8E132 14684 92
EUC-JP (plain)[2]164 238A4 EE165 238A5 EE
EUC-JIS-2004[10]164 238A4 EE165 238A5 EE167 242A7 F2
GB 18030[3]164 238A4 EE165 238A5 EE129 57 167 5381 39 A7 35
EUC-KR[4] / UHC[5]170 238AA EE171 238AB EE
Big5 (non-ETEN kana)[6]198 242C6 F2199 168C7 A8
Big5 (ETEN / HKSCS)[7]199 117C7 75199 234C7 EA

References

  1. 1 2 Unicode Consortium (2015-12-02) [1994-03-08]. "Shift-JIS to Unicode".
  2. 1 2 Unicode Consortium; IBM. "EUC-JP-2007". International Components for Unicode.
  3. 1 2 Standardization Administration of China (SAC) (2005-11-18). GB 18030-2005: Information Technology—Chinese coded character set.
  4. 1 2 Unicode Consortium; IBM. "IBM-970". International Components for Unicode.
  5. 1 2 Steele, Shawn (2000). "cp949 to Unicode table". Microsoft / Unicode Consortium.
  6. 1 2 Unicode Consortium (2015-12-02) [1994-02-11]. "BIG5 to Unicode table (complete)".
  7. 1 2 van Kesteren, Anne. "big5". Encoding Standard. WHATWG.
  8. ↑ Apple Computer (2005-04-05) [1995-04-15]. "Map (external version) from Mac OS Japanese encoding to Unicode 2.1 and later". Unicode Consortium.
  9. ↑ Project X0213 (2009-05-03). "Shift_JIS-2004 (JIS X 0213:2004 Appendix 1) vs Unicode mapping table".{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  10. ↑ Project X0213 (2009-05-03). "EUC-JIS-2004 (JIS X 0213:2004 Appendix 3) vs Unicode mapping table".{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
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