Wa (kana)
わ, in hiragana, or ワ in katakana, is one of the Japanese kana, which each represent one mora. It represents and has origins in the character 和. There is also a small ゎ/ヮ, that is used to write the morae /kwa/ and /gwa/, which are obsolete in contemporary standard Japanese but still exist in the Ryukyuan languages. Katakana ワ is also sometimes written with dakuten, ヷ, to represent a 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.
| Form | Rōmaji | Hiragana | Katakana |
Normal w-
| wa | わ | ワ |
Normal w-
| waa
wā, wah | わあ, わぁ
わー | ワア, ワァ
ワー |
The kana は is read as “wa” when it represents a particle.
