を

Character	を
Unicode name	HIRAGANA LETTER WO
Codepoint	U+3092

Japanese

Stroke order

Etymology 1

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

Pronunciation

• IPA: /o/
• (obsolete) IPA: /wo/
• Homophone: お

Syllable

を (Hepburn romanizations wo, o)

1. (obsolete) The hiragana syllable を (wo), whose equivalent in katakana is ヲ (wo). It is the forty-seventh syllable of the gojūon order, and its position in gojūon tables is わ行お段 (WA-gyō, O-dan; “row WA, section O”).
2. (used as a particle) The hiragana syllable を (o), whose equivalent in katakana is ヲ (o). It is the forty-seventh syllable of the gojūon order, and its position in gojūon tables is わ行お段 (WA-gyō, O-dan; “row WA, section O”).

Related terms

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

See also

• (Hiragana) 平仮名; あぁ, いぃ, うぅゔ, えぇ, おぉ, かゕが, きぎ, くぐ, けゖげ, こご, さざ, しじ, すず, せぜ, そぞ, ただ, ちぢ, つっづ, てで, とど, な, に, ぬ, ね, の, はばぱ, ひびぴ, ふぶぷ, へべぺ, ほぼぽ, ま, み, む, め, も, やゃ, ゆゅ, よょ, ら, り, る, れ, ろ, わゎ, ゐ, ゑ, を, ん, ー, ゝ, ゞ, ゟ ^[edit]

Etymology 2

wo > o.

Pronunciation

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

Particle

を (romaji o)

1. (particle) accusative case; a grammatical marker following the direct object
   • 794: Shin'yaku Kegonkyō Ongi Shiki (page 85)

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References

• 1978 [794], Kobayashi, Yoshinori, Kojisho Ongi Shūsei 1: Shin'yaku Kegonkyō Ongi Shiki (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Kyūko Shoin, ISBN 4-7629-3088-1: