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 wa-(wah)

wa



 wa-(wah)see note 1




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 note 1: the second 'wa' shown here is a grammatical particle. this character is written exactly like 'ha', see the help page on particles .
 kc says: these are the only characters that start with w.
examples
wa-ka-ri-ma-su - wakarimasu (means 'I understand')

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