# 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.

- Reading: wo
- Strokes: 3
- Hiragana: を

## 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

フ

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From Moji Ninja (https://moji.ninja/), a free app for learning hiragana, katakana and the JLPT kanji from N5 to N1 with spaced repetition. Page: https://moji.ninja/katakana-chart/wo/. Last updated 2026-11-01.