Ya (kana)

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Hiragana	Katakana
Transliteration:	ya
Hiragana Man'yōgana:	也
Katakana Man'yōgana:	也
Unicode:
kana - gojūon n wa ra ya ma ha na ta sa ka a tsu wi ri mi hi ni chi shi ki i ゛ ru yu mu fu nu tsu su ku u ー we re me he ne te se ke e wo ro yo mo ho no to so ko o

や, in hiragana, or ヤ in katakana, is one of the Japanese kana, each of which represents one mora. Hiragana is written in three strokes, while the katakana is written in two. Both represent(IPA) /ja/. Their shapes have origins in the character 也.

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

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	や	ヤ
	yaa yā, yah	やあ, やぁ やー	ヤア, ヤァ ヤー

[edit] Stroke order