Wa (Japan)

Wa
Wa
	Chinese character for Wō or Wa, formed by the "person" radical 亻and a wěi or wa 委 phonetic element
Chinese name
Chinese	倭
Literal meaning	submissive, distant, dwarf
Hanyu Pinyin
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin	wō
Middle Chinese
Middle Chinese	/ʔuɑ/
Old Chinese
Zhengzhang	/*qoːl/
Korean name
Hangul	왜
Hanja	倭
Literal meaning	dwarf
Revised Romanization
Transcriptions
Revised Romanization	wae
McCune–Reischauer	wae
Japanese name
Kanji	倭 / 和
Kana	わ
Revised Hepburn
Transcriptions
Revised Hepburn	wa

Wa is the oldest attested name of Japan. From c. the 2nd century CE Chinese and Korean scribes regularly used the Chinese character 倭; 'submissive'', 'distant'', 'dwarf' to refer to the inhabitants of the Wa kingdoms on Kyushu and those of the ancient Yamato kingdom. In the 8th century, the Japanese replaced the character with 和, wa, 'harmony', 'peace', 'balance'.

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