わ

In the Japanese script, the syllabic (or, more properly, moraic) characters わ (hiragana) and ワ (katakana) rank 44th in the modern ordering system. alphabetic gojūon (五十音), between ろ and ゐ; and the 13th in the iroha poem, between を and か. In the table to the right, which follows the gojūon order (by columns, and from right to left), it is found in the tenth column (to which it gives its name, わ行, "WA column") and the first row (あ段, "row A").

Both わ and ワ come from the kanji 和.

The smaller character, ゎ, is used to form the syllables kwa (かゎ), gwa (がゎ), which historically became ka (か), ga (が).

Romanization

Under the Hepburn, Kunrei-shiki, and Nihon-shiki romanization systems, わ, ワ are romanized as "wa".

Writing

Writing of.

Writing dura.

The character わ is written with two strokes:

1. Vertical stroke on the left side of the character.
2. Trace composed of a very short horizontal line at the top left of the character, a diagonal line very bend down to the left and a large curve that resembles a circumference arch of about 300° in the sense of the clock needles. It's similar to tiles and cedes, differing at the end of the second stroke.

The character ワ is written with one or two strokes:

1. Vertical stroke.
2. Trace composed of a horizontal line, which begins at the top of the first stroke, and a curve that goes down to the left, similar to the character.

Other representations

• Braille System:

• Phonetic Alphabet: מה wa of warabi"where warabi means rubber)
• Morse Code: -・-