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අමතර අවධානයට: ほ, ば, ぱ, සහ Appendix:Variations of "ha"

は U+306F, は HIRAGANA LETTER HA ← の [U+306E] Hiragana ば → [U+3070]

ජපන්

Stroke order

නිරුක්තිය 1

Derived in the Heian period from writing the man'yōgana kanji 波 in the cursive sōsho style.

උච්චාරණය

• IPA^(key): [ha̠]

Syllable

は (ha) 

1. The hiragana syllable は (ha). Its equivalent in katakana is ハ (ha). It is the twenty-sixth syllable in the gojūon order; its position is は行あ段 (ha-gyō a-dan, “row ha, section a”).

ව්‍යුත්පන්න පද

• ば (ba)
• ぱ (pa)

අමතර අවධානයට

• (Hiragana) 平仮名; あぁ, いぃ, うぅゔ, えぇ, おぉ, かゕが, きぎ, くぐ, けゖげ, こ𛄲 (𛄲)ご, さざ, しじ, すず, せぜ, そぞ, ただ, ちぢ, つっづ, てで, とど, な, に, ぬ, ね, の, はばぱ, ひびぴ, ふぶぷ, へべぺ, ほぼぽ, ま, み, む, め, も, やゃ, 𛀆, ゆゅ, 𛀁, よょ, らら゚, りり゚, るる゚, れれ゚, ろろ゚, わゎわ゙, ゐ𛅐 (𛅐)ゐ゙, 𛄟 (𛄟), ゑ𛅑 (𛅑)ゑ゙, を𛅒 (𛅒)を゙, ん, ー, ゝ, ゞ, ゟ

නිරුක්තිය 2

/pa/ → /ɸa/ → /wa/

From Old Japanese. Used in the oldest Japanese writings, including the Man'yōshū finished some time after 759 CE. Ultimately from Proto-Japonic *pa.

The particle was excluded from the post-war script reform, rather than changed to わ (wa), which would be more phonetically accurate.

උච්චාරණය

• IPA^(key): [ɰᵝa̠]

නිපාත පදය

は (wa) 

1. සැකිල්ල:non-gloss

   Antonym: も

   これは犬(いぬ)です。

   Kore wa inu desu.

   This [the topic, about which we are speaking] is a dog.

   今日(きょう)は雨(あめ)ですね。

   Kyō wa ame desu ne.

   It seems like it is raining today.

   今日(きょう)は雨(あめ)が降(ふ)っています。

   Kyō wa ame ga futteimasu.

   It is raining today.

   (literally, “As for today, rain is falling.”)

2. what about, where is (used without a predicate to ask for more information about something)

   中(なか)田(だ)は？

   Nakada wa?

   Where's Nakada?

   じゃ、意(い)味(み　)は？

   Ja, imi wa?

   So, what's the meaning?

3. Inserted between two verbs for emphasis.

   そう思(おも)ってはいないでしょうか。

   Sō omotte wa inai deshō ka.

   Do you not think so?

   勝(か)てるとは思(おも)ってはいない

   kateru to wa omotte wa inai

   does not think that one can win

   現(あらわ)れては消(き)えた

   arawarete wa kieta

   disappeared as soon as it appeared

   • 1975, “眠れぬ夜”, 小田和正 (lyrics)‎^{[[[:සැකිල්ල:ifmatch]]]}performed by オフコース:

     愛(あい)のない毎(まい)日(にち)は　自(じ)由(ゆう)な毎(まい)日(にち)
     誰(だれ)も僕(ぼく)を責(せ)めたり　できはしないさ

     ai no nai mainichi wa jiyū na mainichi
     dare mo boku o semetari deki wa shinai sa

     Days without love are days of freedom
     No one can pester me anymore

භාවිත සටහන්

• Note that English has no direct counterpart. For illustrative purposes, it may be translated as "as for", "speaking of", or a similar phrase. For example, "As for this, it is a dog". This often does not produce very natural English, however.
• When inserted between two verbs for emphasis, は is usually used with negatives and after a て (te) form. This has given rise to ではない (de wa nai), the now standard negative form of だ (da).
• も (mo) vs は (ha): see も (mo).
• は always replaces を (o) and が (ga), but may follow other particles.

ව්‍යුත්පන්න පද

• ば (ba, the conditional conjugation ending)
• では (de wa, “then, well then, in that case”)

අමතර අවධානයට

• とは (to wa, used to ask for definitions)
• が (ga, the subject marker)
• 은 (eun, the සැකිල්ල:ncog equivalent)

වැඩිදුර අධ්‍යයනය සඳහා

• は as a Japanese topic marker on Wikipedia

නිරුක්තිය 3

Interjection

は (ha) 

1. (dated, humble) Used to show agreement or obedience: yes

   は、さようでございます。

   Ha, sayō de gozaimasu.

   Yes, exactly.

   は、承(しょう)知(ち)いたしました。

   Ha, shōchi itashimashita.

   Yes, as you wish.

නිරුක්තිය 4

は යන යෙදුමේ උච්චාරණය සහ අර්ථ දැක්වීම සඳහා – මතු දැක්වෙන ප්‍රවේශ: 羽, 葉, 歯, 端, 刃, 翳

(The following entries are uncreated: 羽, 葉, 歯, 端, 刃, 翳.)