Ya (kana)

Ya (hiragana: や, katakana: ヤ) is one of the Japanese kana, each of which represents one mora. The hiragana is written in three strokes, while the katakana is written in two. Both represent [ja]. Their shapes have origins in the character 也.

ya
hiragana
katakana
transliterationya
hiragana origin
katakana origin
Man'yōgana也 移 夜 楊 耶 野 八 矢 屋
spelling kana大和のヤ Yamato no "ya"
unicodeU+3084, U+30E4
braille

When small and preceded by an -i kana, this kana represents not a separate sound but a modification of that of another (see yōon).[1]

や can be used by itself as a grammatical particle to connect words in a nonexhaustive list (see Japanese particles#ya).

Form Rōmaji Hiragana Katakana
Normal y-
(や行 ya-gyō)
ya
yaa
, yah
やあ, やぁ
やー
ヤア, ヤァ
ヤー

Stroke order

Stroke order in writing や
Stroke order in writing ヤ
Stroke order in writing や
Stroke order in writing ヤ

Other communicative representations

  • Full Braille representation
や / ヤ in Japanese Braille
や / ヤ
ya
やあ / ヤー
ゃ/ャ
Yōon*
゛ゃ/゛ャ
Dakuten + Yōon*
゜ゃ/゜ャ
Handakuten + Yōon*

* The yōon characters ゃ and ャ are encoded in Japanese Braille by prefixing "-a" kana (e.g. Ka, Sa) with a yōon braille indicator, which can be combined with the "Dakuten" or "Handakuten" braille indicators for the appropriate consonant sounds.

Character information
Preview
Unicode nameHIRAGANA LETTER YAKATAKANA LETTER YAHALFWIDTH KATAKANA LETTER YACIRCLED KATAKANA YA
Encodingsdecimalhexdecimalhexdecimalhexdecimalhex
Unicode12420U+308412516U+30E465428U+FF9413043U+32F3
UTF-8227 130 132E3 82 84227 131 164E3 83 A4239 190 148EF BE 94227 139 179E3 8B B3
Numeric character referenceややヤヤヤヤ㋳㋳
Shift JIS[2]130 22682 E2131 13283 84212D4
EUC-JP[3]164 228A4 E4165 228A5 E4142 2128E D4
GB 18030[4]164 228A4 E4165 228A5 E4132 49 154 5684 31 9A 38
EUC-KR[5] / UHC[6]170 228AA E4171 228AB E4
Big5 (non-ETEN kana)[7]198 232C6 E8199 124C7 7C
Big5 (ETEN / HKSCS)[8]199 107C7 6B199 224C7 E0
Character information
Preview
Unicode nameHIRAGANA LETTER SMALL YAKATAKANA LETTER SMALL YAHALFWIDTH KATAKANA LETTER SMALL YA
Encodingsdecimalhexdecimalhexdecimalhex
Unicode12419U+308312515U+30E365388U+FF6C
UTF-8227 130 131E3 82 83227 131 163E3 83 A3239 189 172EF BD AC
Numeric character referenceゃゃャャャャ
Shift JIS[2]130 22582 E1131 13183 83172AC
EUC-JP[3]164 227A4 E3165 227A5 E3142 1728E AC
GB 18030[4]164 227A4 E3165 227A5 E3132 49 150 5684 31 96 38
EUC-KR[5] / UHC[6]170 227AA E3171 227AB E3
Big5 (non-ETEN kana)[7]198 231C6 E7199 123C7 7B
Big5 (ETEN/> / HKSCS)[8]199 106C7 6A199 223C7 DF

References


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