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ヲ

Katakana · Basic characters

ヲ wo

Pronounced “o”. を is only used as the particle that marks the object of a verb; the katakana ヲ is almost never seen.

Example word

ヲ is rarely seen in katakana; you will meet it far more often as を.

In hiragana

を

ほんをよむ (hon o yomu) — to read a book

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