Wo (kana)

wo
hiragana
japanese hiragana wo
katakana
japanese katakana wo
transliteration(w)o
hiragana origin
katakana origin
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"
unicodeU+3092, U+30F2
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, in hiragana, or in katakana, is one of the Japanese kana, each of which represents one mora. Historically, both are phonemically /wo/, reflected in the Nihon-shiki wo, although the contemporary pronunciation is [o] , reflected in the Hepburn romanization and Kunrei-shiki romanization[1] o. Thus it is pronounced identically to the kana o. Despite this phonemic merger, the kana wo is sometimes regarded as a distinct phoneme from /o/, represented as /wo/, to account for historical pronunciation and for orthographic purposes.


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