U+308E "ゎ" Hiragana Letter Small Wa Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ゎ
U+308E "ゎ" Hiragana Letter Small Wa is a rarely used Japanese phonetic symbol that represents a smaller version of the standard hiragana character for "wa" (わ), and is primarily employed in historical or stylistic orthography to indicate a contracted or muttered pronunciation, particularly in older texts or certain dialects where it functions as a digraph to modify the preceding consonant, though it is not a standard part of modern everyday Japanese writing.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+308E |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Hiragana Letter Small Wa |
| Block | Hiragana |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ゎ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ゎ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x82 0x8E |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x308E |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000308E |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u308e |