ヲ — katakana “wo”
ヲ is the katakana character for the sound “wo”. It is written with 3 strokes, and in hiragana the same sound is を.
ヲ
How to write ヲ
Follow the numbers on the diagram: each stroke starts at its number. Keep to this order, because that is how your hand remembers the shape.
How ヲ sounds
Read o, though it is typed wo. Today it is almost only the particle that marks the object of a verb.
Rare in katakana: loanwords spell this sound with オ.
Don't confuse it with
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