How to write を (wo) in hiragana

を is romanized wo but pronounced o, and today it is used almost only as the particle that marks the object of a verb. It grew out of the cursive form of the kanji 遠 (“distant”). Its three strokes begin at the top left, heading rightwards, and the last one finishes at the bottom right. It turns up inside words such as を (“indicates direct object of…”), 絵を描く (“to paint a picture”) and ところを (“although…”).