Wa (Mongolic)

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

Mongolian language

 * Transcribes Chakhar ; Transliterated into Cyrillic with the letter.
 * Used to transcribe foreign words (originally for v in Sanskrit व /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.


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