Wa (Mongolic)

Wa is a letter of related and vertically oriented alphabets used to write Mongolic and Tungusic languages.

Mongolian language

Letter ()TransliterationInitialMedial (syllable-initial)Medial (syllable-final) Final C-V syllables, , , , Transliteration—AloneInitialMedial Final Transcribes Chakhar ; Transliterated into Cyrillic with the letter . Used to transcribe foreign words (originally for v in Sanskrit /va/). Transcribes /w/ in Tibetan ཝ /wa/; Old Uyghur and Chinese loanwords.

Indistinguishable from , except when inferred by its placement: typically between vowels, but also when it follows a consonant and precedes a vowel. In many xylographs also indistinguishable from the straight form of .

Derived from Old Uyghur bet (), and waw (, before a separated vowel). Produced with using the Windows Mongolian keyboard layout. In the Mongolian Unicode block, comes after .

Clear Script

Xibe language

Manchu language

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