ཝ

ཝ U+0F5D, ཝ TIBETAN LETTER WA ← ཛྷ [U+0F5C] Tibetan ཞ → [U+0F5E]

Translingual

Letter

ཝ

1. Tibetan letter wa

Balti

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /wɑ/, [wɑ]

Letter

ཝ (wa)

1. The twenty-third letter of the Balti alphabet, written in the Tibetan script

Dzongkha

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /wɑ˥/, [wɑ˥]

Letter

ཝ (wa)

1. The twentieth letter of the Dzongkha alphabet

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /wɑ˩/

Noun

ཝ (wa)

1. tub, trough
2. crib, manger

Alternative forms

• ལྦ (lba)

Ladakhi

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /wə/, [wə]

Letter

ཝ (wa)

1. The twentieth leter of the Ladakhi alphabet

Sherpa

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /wa/, [wa]

Letter

ཝ (wa)

1. The thirty-first letter of the Sherpa alphabet, written in the Tibetan script

Sikkimese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /wɐ/, [wɐ]

Letter

ཝ (wa)

1. The twenty-fifth letter of the Sikkimese alphabet

Tibetan

Pronunciation

• Old Tibetan: /*wa/
• Lhasa: /wa˩˨/

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• Old Tibetan:
  • IPA^(key): /*wa/ (reconstructed)
• Ü-Tsang
  • Tibetan pinyin: wa^v
  • (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /wa˩˨/

Etymology 1

Letter

ཝ • (wa)

1. Tibetan letter wa

Etymology 2

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *gwa; cognate to Chinese 狐 (hú).

Noun

ཝ • (wa)

1. fox

Descendants

• → Wutunhua: gha