Va (Indic)

Va
Va
Example glyphs
Bengali–AssameseVa
Tibetan
TamilVa
Thai
Malayalam
Sinhala
Ashoka BrahmiVa
DevanagariVa
Cognates
Hebrewו
GreekϜ (Ϛ), Υ (Ȣ)
LatinF, V, U, W, Y, Ⅎ
CyrillicЅ, У (Ꙋ), Ѵ, Ю
Properties
Phonemic representation/ʋ/
IAST transliterationv V
ISCII code pointD4 (212)

Va or Wa is a consonant of Indic abugidas. In modern Indic scripts, Va is derived from the early "Ashoka" Brahmi letter ng after having gone through the Gupta letter . It is generally romanized as "Va" in scripts for Indic languages, but as "Wa" in many scripts for other language families.