を

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Contents 1 Translingual 1.1 Syllable 2 Japanese 2.1 Etymology 1 2.1.1 Pronunciation 2.1.2 Hiragana character 2.1.2.1 Related terms 2.2 Etymology 2 2.2.1 Pronunciation 2.2.2 Particle 2.2.3 Orphaned information

[edit] Translingual

The Hiragana script
あぁ	かゕが	さざ	ただ	な	はばぱ	ま	やゃ	ら	わゎ	ん
いぃ	きぎ	しじ	ちぢ	に	ひびぴ	み		り	ゐ
うぅゔ	くぐ	すず	つっづ	ぬ	ふぶぷ	む	ゆゅ	る
えぇ	けゖげ	せぜ	てで	ね	へべぺ	め		れ	ゑ
おぉ	こご	そぞ	とど	の	ほぼぽ	も	よょ	ろ	を
Additional symbols ーゝゞゟ
を Unicode: U+3092Katakana: ヲHepburn romanization: wo, oNihon-shiki romanization: woPolivanov cyrillization: оJapanese braille: ⠔

[edit] Syllable

を

1. The hiragana syllable at わ行お段 (row WA, section O) in a gojūon table.

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[edit] Japanese

Stroke order

[edit] Etymology 1

Derived in the Heian period from writing the man'yōgana kanji 遠 in the cursive sōsho style.

[edit] Pronunciation

• Homophones: お

[edit] Hiragana character

を (romaji wo)

1. (obsolete) The /wo/ syllable.
2. The /o/ syllable.
3. The forty-seventh character in the gojūon ordering of hiragana. The previous character is ゑ and the next character is ん. The equivalent katakana character is ヲ.

[edit] Related terms

• For a list of words starting with を (wo) see: Special:Allpages/を

[edit] Etymology 2

wo > o.

[edit] Pronunciation

• IPA: [o]. The historical spelling is retained despite the modern pronunciation.

[edit] Particle

を (romaji o)

1. (particle) accusative case; a grammatical marker following the direct object

   本を読みたいです。

   ほんをよみたいです。

   Hon o yomitai desu.

   I want to read a book.

[edit] Orphaned information

Entries for languages other than English must not have translation sections. However while English has no translation for を, Hebrew has את (et), Korean has 을 (eul) and 를 (reul), and Spanish has a, which is only used when the object is a person.