# Wa (kana)

kana gojūon :
| wa | ra | ya | ma | ha | na | ta | sa | ka | a |
| wi | ri | (yi) | mi | hi | ni | chi | shi | ki | i |
| (wu) | ru | yu | mu | fu | nu | tsu | su | ku | u |
| we | re | (ye) | me | he | ne | te | se | ke | e |
| wo | ro | yo | mo | ho | no | to | so | ko | o |
| | | | n | | | | | | |
Kana modifiers and marks :
sokuonfu (gemination)
yōon (palatalization)
chōonpu (vowel lengthener)
Iteration marks
dakuten/handakuten (voiced & semi-voiced marks) :
Multi-moraic kana :
iu
kashiko
koto
sama
shite
toki
tomo
nari
mairasesoro
yori :
vte :
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 |
| Normal w- (わ行 wa-gyō) | wa | わ | ワ |
| Normal w- (わ行 wa-gyō) | 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

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

## Other communicative representations

| Japanese radiotelephony alphabet | Wabun code |
| わらびのワ Warabi no "Wa" | ▄▄▄ ▄ ▄▄▄ |
| Japanese Navy Signal Flag | Japanese semaphore | Japanese manual syllabary (fingerspelling) | Braille dots-3 Japanese Braille |
* Full Braille representation
わ / ワ in Japanese Braille :
| わ / ワ wa | ヷ va | わあ / ワー wā | ヷー vā |
* Computer encodings
Character information :
| Preview | わ | わ | ワ | ワ | ﾜ | ﾜ | 🋀 | 🋀 |
| Unicode name | HIRAGANA LETTER WA | HIRAGANA LETTER WA | KATAKANA LETTER WA | KATAKANA LETTER WA | HALFWIDTH KATAKANA LETTER WA | HALFWIDTH KATAKANA LETTER WA | HALFWIDTH KATAKANA LETTER SMALL 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 | &#12431; | &#x308F; | &#12527; | &#x30EF; | &#65436; | &#xFF9C; | &#127680; | &#x1F2C0; |
| Shift JIS | 130 237 | 82 ED | 131 143 | 83 8F | 220 | DC | | |
| EUC-JP | 164 239 | A4 EF | 165 239 | A5 EF | 142 220 | 8E DC | | |
| GB 18030 | 164 239 | A4 EF | 165 239 | A5 EF | 132 49 155 54 | 84 31 9B 36 | | |
| EUC-KR / UHC | 170 239 | AA EF | 171 239 | AB EF | | | | |
| Big5 (non-ETEN kana) | 198 243 | C6 F3 | 199 169 | C7 A9 | | | | |
| Big5 (ETEN / HKSCS) | 199 118 | C7 76 | 199 235 | C7 EB | | | | |
Character information :
| Preview | ゎ | ゎ | ヮ | ヮ | ヷ | ヷ | ㋻ | ㋻ |
| Unicode name | HIRAGANA LETTER SMALL WA | HIRAGANA LETTER SMALL WA | KATAKANA LETTER SMALL WA | KATAKANA LETTER SMALL WA | KATAKANA LETTER VA | KATAKANA LETTER VA | CIRCLED KATAKANA WA | 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 | &#12430; | &#x308E; | &#12526; | &#x30EE; | &#12535; | &#x30F7; | &#13051; | &#x32FB; |
| Shift JIS (plain) | 130 236 | 82 EC | 131 142 | 83 8E | | | | |
| Shift JIS (KanjiTalk 7) | 130 236 | 82 EC | 131 142 | 83 8E | 136 106 | 88 6A | | |
| Shift JIS-2004 | 130 236 | 82 EC | 131 142 | 83 8E | 132 146 | 84 92 | | |
| EUC-JP (plain) | 164 238 | A4 EE | 165 238 | A5 EE | | | | |
| EUC-JIS-2004 | 164 238 | A4 EE | 165 238 | A5 EE | 167 242 | A7 F2 | | |
| GB 18030 | 164 238 | A4 EE | 165 238 | A5 EE | 129 57 167 53 | 81 39 A7 35 | | |
| EUC-KR / UHC | 170 238 | AA EE | 171 238 | AB EE | | | | |
| Big5 (non-ETEN kana) | 198 242 | C6 F2 | 199 168 | C7 A8 | | | | |
| Big5 (ETEN / HKSCS) | 199 117 | C7 75 | 199 234 | C7 EA | | | | |