Wa (kana)
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| transliteration | wa | ||
| hiragana origin | 和 | ||
| katakana origin | 和 | ||
| Man'yōgana | 和 丸 輪 | ||
| spelling kana | わらびのワ Warabi no "wa" | ||
| unicode | U+308F, U+30EF | ||
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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 digraph ヴァ.
| Form | Rōmaji | Hiragana | Katakana |
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| Normal w- (わ行 wa-gyō) | wa | わ | ワ |
| waa wā | わあ わー | ワア ワー |
The kana は (ha) is read as “wa” when it represents a particle.
Stroke order
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Other communicative representations
[edit]| Japanese radiotelephony alphabet | Wabun code |
| わらびのワ Warabi no "Wa" |
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| Japanese Navy Signal Flag | Japanese semaphore | Japanese manual syllabary (fingerspelling) | Braille dots-3 Japanese Braille |
- Full Braille representation
| わ / ワ in Japanese Braille | |||
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| わ / ワ wa | ヷ va | わあ / ワー wā | ヷー vā |
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| Preview | わ | ワ | ﾜ | | ||||
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| 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 | ||||
| Preview | ゎ | ヮ | ヷ | ㋻ | ||||
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| 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
[edit]- ^ a b Unicode Consortium (2015-12-02) [1994-03-08]. "Shift-JIS to Unicode".
- ^ a b Unicode Consortium; IBM. "EUC-JP-2007". International Components for Unicode.
- ^ a b Standardization Administration of China (SAC) (2005-11-18). GB 18030-2005: Information Technology—Chinese coded character set.
- ^ a b Unicode Consortium; IBM. "IBM-970". International Components for Unicode.
- ^ a b Steele, Shawn (2000). "cp949 to Unicode table". Microsoft / Unicode Consortium.
- ^ a b Unicode Consortium (2015-12-02) [1994-02-11]. "BIG5 to Unicode table (complete)".
- ^ a b van Kesteren, Anne. "big5". Encoding Standard. WHATWG.
- ^ Apple Computer (2005-04-05) [1995-04-15]. "Map (external version) from Mac OS Japanese encoding to Unicode 2.1 and later". Unicode Consortium.
- ^ Project X0213 (2009-05-03). "Shift_JIS-2004 (JIS X 0213:2004 Appendix 1) vs Unicode mapping table".
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