U+308E "ゎ" Hiragana Letter Small Wa Unicode Character

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.