U+30F2 "ヲ" Katakana Letter Wo Unicode Character

U+30F2 "ヲ" Katakana Letter Wo is a character in the Japanese writing system used primarily to represent the syllable "wo," though in modern standard Japanese it is almost exclusively employed as a grammatical particle in katakana transcription, particularly for foreign names and loanwords. Historically derived from the kanji "乎," this katakana character has a pronunciation that in contemporary speech merges with the sound for "o," making it distinct mainly in written form. Unlike its hiragana counterpart "を," which frequently appears in native Japanese texts, the katakana "ヲ" is less common and often appears in technical, transliterated, or stylized contexts, such as in scientific names, archaic texts, or creative typography.