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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
Stroke order of ヲ (wo)
Reading
wo
Script
katakana
Strokes
3
Row
the ワ row
Hiragana
を

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

The whole row

Practise ヲ free

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