Wa (kana)

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wa
spelling kana
わらびのワ Warabi no "wa"
unicodeU+308F, U+30EF
braille⠄
kana gojūon
warayamahanatasakaa
wiri(yi)mihinichishikii
(wu)ruyumufunutsusukuu
were(ye)mehenetesekee
woroyomohonotosokoo
n
Kana modifiers and marks
Multi-syllabic kana
  • iu
  • kashiko
  • koto
  • sama
  • shite
  • toki
  • tomo
  • nari
  • mairasesoro
  • yori

Wa (

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

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 🋀
Unicode name HIRAGANA LETTER WA KATAKANA LETTER WA HALFWIDTH KATAKANA LETTER WA HALFWIDTH KATAKANA LETTER SMALL WA
Encodings decimal hex dec hex dec hex dec hex
Unicode 12431 U+308F 12527 U+30EF 65436 U+FF9C 127680 U+1F2C0
UTF-8 227 130 143 E3 82 8F 227 131 175 E3 83 AF 239 190 156 EF BE 9C 240 159 139 128 F0 9F 8B 80
UTF-16 12431 308F 12527 30EF 65436 FF9C 55356 57024 D83C DEC0
Numeric character reference わ わ 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 ㋻
Unicode name HIRAGANA LETTER SMALL WA KATAKANA LETTER SMALL WA KATAKANA LETTER VA CIRCLED KATAKANA WA
Encodings decimal hex dec hex dec hex dec hex
Unicode 12430 U+308E 12526 U+30EE 12535 U+30F7 13051 U+32FB
UTF-8 227 130 142 E3 82 8E 227 131 174 E3 83 AE 227 131 183 E3 83 B7 227 139 187 E3 8B BB
Numeric character reference ゎ ゎ ヮ ヮ ヷ ヷ ㋻ ㋻
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

  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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