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Wa (kana)

May 03, 2024

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.

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
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 edit

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

Other communicative representations edit

  • Full Braille representation
わ / ワ in Japanese Braille
わ / ワ
wa		 ヷ
va		 わあ / ワー
wā		 ヷー
vā
           
Character information
Preview わ ワ ﾜ ㋻
Unicode name HIRAGANA LETTER WA KATAKANA LETTER WA HALFWIDTH KATAKANA LETTER WA CIRCLED KATAKANA WA
Encodings decimal hex dec hex dec hex dec hex
Unicode 12431 U+308F 12527 U+30EF 65436 U+FF9C 13051 U+32FB
UTF-8 227 130 143 E3 82 8F 227 131 175 E3 83 AF 239 190 156 EF BE 9C 227 139 187 E3 8B BB
Numeric character reference わ わ ワ ワ ﾜ ﾜ ㋻ ㋻
Shift JIS[1] 130 237 82 ED 131 143 83 8F 220 DC
EUC-JP[2] 164 239 A4 EF 165 239 A5 EF 142 220 8E DC
GB 18030[3] 164 239 A4 EF 165 239 A5 EF 132 49 155 54 84 31 9B 36
EUC-KR[4] / UHC[5] 170 239 AA EF 171 239 AB EF
Big5 (non-ETEN kana)[6] 198 243 C6 F3 199 169 C7 A9
Big5 (ETEN / HKSCS)[7] 199 118 C7 76 199 235 C7 EB
Character information
Preview ゎ ヮ ヷ
Unicode name HIRAGANA LETTER SMALL WA KATAKANA LETTER SMALL WA KATAKANA LETTER VA
Encodings decimal hex dec hex dec hex
Unicode 12430 U+308E 12526 U+30EE 12535 U+30F7
UTF-8 227 130 142 E3 82 8E 227 131 174 E3 83 AE 227 131 183 E3 83 B7
Numeric character reference ゎ ゎ ヮ ヮ ヷ ヷ
Shift JIS (plain)[1] 130 236 82 EC 131 142 83 8E
Shift JIS (KanjiTalk 7)[8] 130 236 82 EC 131 142 83 8E 136 106 88 6A
Shift JIS-2004[9] 130 236 82 EC 131 142 83 8E 132 146 84 92
EUC-JP (plain)[2] 164 238 A4 EE 165 238 A5 EE
EUC-JIS-2004[10] 164 238 A4 EE 165 238 A5 EE 167 242 A7 F2
GB 18030[3] 164 238 A4 EE 165 238 A5 EE 129 57 167 53 81 39 A7 35
EUC-KR[4] / UHC[5] 170 238 AA EE 171 238 AB EE
Big5 (non-ETEN kana)[6] 198 242 C6 F2 199 168 C7 A8
Big5 (ETEN / HKSCS)[7] 199 117 C7 75 199 234 C7 EA

References edit

  1. ^ a b Unicode Consortium (2015-12-02) [1994-03-08]. "Shift-JIS to Unicode".
  2. ^ a b Unicode Consortium; IBM. "EUC-JP-2007". International Components for Unicode.
  3. ^ a b Standardization Administration of China (SAC) (2005-11-18). GB 18030-2005: Information Technology—Chinese coded character set.
  4. ^ a b Unicode Consortium; IBM. "IBM-970". International Components for Unicode.
  5. ^ a b Steele, Shawn (2000). "cp949 to Unicode table". Microsoft / Unicode Consortium.
  6. ^ a b Unicode Consortium (2015-12-02) [1994-02-11]. "BIG5 to Unicode table (complete)".
  7. ^ a b 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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