This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this articlebyadding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed.
Find sources: "Wo" kana – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (December 2009) (Learn how and when to remove this message) |
wo | |||
---|---|---|---|
| |||
transliteration | (w)o | ||
hiragana origin | 遠 | ||
katakana origin | 乎 | ||
Man'yōgana | 乎 呼 遠 鳥 怨 越 少 小 尾 麻 男 緒 雄 | ||
spelling kana | 尾張のヲ (W)owari no "(w)o" | ||
unicode | U+3092, U+30F2 | ||
braille | ![]() |
kana gojūon | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Kana modifiers and marks | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Multi-syllabic kana | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
を, in hiragana, or ヲinkatakana, is one of the Japanese kana, each of which represents one mora. Both are phonemically /wo/, reflected in the Nihon-shiki wo, although for phonological reasons, the actual pronunciation is [o] ⓘ, reflected in the Hepburn romanization and Kunrei-shiki Romanization[1] o.
In the 1946 orthographic reforms, を was largely replaced by お. In Japanese, this kana is used almost exclusively for a particle for both forms; therefore, the katakana form (ヲ) is rare in everyday language mostly seen in all-katakana text. A "wo" sound is usually represented as うぉorウォ instead.
Despite originally representing [wo], the syllable is pronounced [o] by almost all modern speakers. Singers may pronounce it with the [w], as may those attempting to emphasize the syllable for clarity. Apart from some literate speakers who have revived [wo] as a spelling pronunciation, though, this [w] sound is extinct in the modern spoken language.
InRomaji, the kana is transliterated variably as ⟨o⟩or⟨wo⟩, with the former being faithful to standard pronunciation, but the latter avoiding confusion with お and オ. を is transliterated as oinModified Hepburn and Kunrei and as wo in Traditional Hepburn and Nippon-shiki.
Katakana ヲ can sometimes be combined with a dakuten, ヺ, to represent a /vo/ sound in foreign words; however, most IMEs lack a convenient way to do this. The combination ヴォ is used far more frequently to represent the /vo/ sound.
Form | Rōmaji | Hiragana | Katakana |
---|---|---|---|
Normal w- (わ行 wa-gyō) |
(w)o | を | ヲ |
Hiragana を is still used in several Okinawan orthographies for the syllable /o~wo/; in the Ryukyu University system it is /o/, whereas おis/ʔo/. Katakana ヲ is used in Ainu for /wo/.
![]() |
![]() |
Japanese radiotelephony alphabet | Wabun code |
尾張のヲ Wowari no "Wo" |
▄ ▄▄▄ ▄▄▄ ▄▄▄ ⓘ |
![]() | |||
Japanese Navy Signal Flag | Japanese semaphore | Japanese manual syllabary (fingerspelling) | Braille dots-35 Japanese Braille |
を / ヲinJapanese Braille | |||
---|---|---|---|
を / ヲ wo |
をう / ヲー wō |
ヺ vo |
ヺー vō |
![]() |
![]() ![]() |
![]() ![]() |
![]() ![]() ![]() |
Preview | を | ヲ | ヲ | ㋾ | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Unicode name | HIRAGANA LETTER WO | KATAKANA LETTER WO | HALFWIDTH KATAKANA LETTER WO | CIRCLED KATAKANA WO | ||||
Encodings | decimal | hex | dec | hex | dec | hex | dec | hex |
Unicode | 12434 | U+3092 | 12530 | U+30F2 | 65382 | U+FF66 | 13054 | U+32FE |
UTF-8 | 227 130 146 | E3 82 92 | 227 131 178 | E3 83 B2 | 239 189 166 | EF BD A6 | 227 139 190 | E3 8B BE |
GB 18030 | 164 242 | A4 F2 | 165 242 | A5 F2 | 132 49 150 50 | 84 31 96 32 | 129 57 214 50 | 81 39 D6 32 |
Numeric character reference | を |
を |
ヲ |
ヲ |
ヲ |
ヲ |
㋾ |
㋾ |
Shift JIS[2] | 130 240 | 82 F0 | 131 146 | 83 92 | 166 | A6 | ||
EUC-JP[3] | 164 242 | A4 F2 | 165 242 | A5 F2 | 142 166 | 8E A6 | ||
EUC-KR[4] / UHC[5] | 170 242 | AA F2 | 171 242 | AB F2 | ||||
Big5 (non-ETEN kana)[6] | 198 246 | C6 F6 | 199 172 | C7 AC | ||||
Big5 (ETEN / HKSCS)[7] | 199 121 | C7 79 | 199 238 | C7 EE |
Preview | 𛅒 | 𛅦 | ヺ | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Unicode name | HIRAGANA LETTER SMALL WO | KATAKANA LETTER SMALL WO | KATAKANA LETTER VO | |||
Encodings | decimal | hex | dec | hex | dec | hex |
Unicode | 110930 | U+1B152 | 110950 | U+1B166 | 12538 | U+30FA |
UTF-8 | 240 155 133 146 | F0 9B 85 92 | 240 155 133 166 | F0 9B 85 A6 | 227 131 186 | E3 83 BA |
UTF-16 | 55340 56658 | D82C DD52 | 55340 56678 | D82C DD66 | 12538 | 30FA |
GB 18030 | 147 54 132 52 | 93 36 84 34 | 147 54 134 52 | 93 36 86 34 | 129 57 167 56 | 81 39 A7 38 |
Numeric character reference | 𛅒 |
𛅒 |
𛅦 |
𛅦 |
ヺ |
ヺ |
Shift JIS (KanjiTalk 7)[8] | 136 109 | 88 6D | ||||
Shift JIS-2004[9] | 132 149 | 84 95 | ||||
EUC-JIS-2004[10] | 167 245 | A7 F5 |
{{cite web}}
: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
{{cite web}}
: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)