わ

Hiragana	Katakana
Transliteration:	wa
Hiragana Man'yōgana:	和
Katakana Man'yōgana:	和
Unicode:
kana - gojūon n wa ra ya ma ha na ta sa ka a tsu wi ri mi hi ni chi shi ki i ゛ ru yu mu fu nu tsu su ku u ー we re me he ne te se ke e wo ro yo mo ho no to so ko o

わ, in hiragana, or ワ in katakana, is one of the Japanese kana, which each represent one mora. It represents (IPA) /ɰa/ and has origins in the character 和. There is also a small ゎ/ヮ: the hiragana form is used to write the morae /kwa/ and /gwa/ (くゎ, ぐゎ), which are obsolete in contemporary standard Japanese, but still present in the Ryukyuan languages; the katakana form may be found when transcribing foreign words such as English "quality".

The kana は (ha) is read as “wa” when it represents a particle.

[edit] Stroke order

Stroke order in writing わ

Stroke order in writing ワ

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