U+30EE "ヮ" Katakana Letter Small Wa Unicode Character

U+30EE "ヮ" Katakana Letter Small Wa is a diacritical mark in the Japanese katakana script, distinct from the full-sized "ワ" (Wa) in that it is written at a smaller scale and primarily functions not as an independent syllable but as a modifier to form compound sounds when attached to other characters, specifically to create the "kwa" and "gwa" sounds in modern loanword transcription and in the representation of non-standard Japanese phonetic elements. Unlike most small kana, it does not represent a length mark or palatalization, but rather narrow vowel coalescence, making it a specialized tool in the orthography of foreign word adaptation rather than a core component of everyday Japanese writing.