Ya (kana)

ya
hiragana
 katakana
transliteration ya
hiragana origin 也
katakana origin 也

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 [ja]. Their shapes have origins in the character 也.

When small and preceded 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

Stroke order

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

Other representations

Character や ヤ ﾔ
Unicode name HIRAGANA LETTER YA KATAKANA LETTER YA HALFWIDTH KATAKANA LETTER YA
Encodings decimal hex decimal hex decimal hex
Unicode 12420 U+3084 12516 U+30E4 65428 U+FF94
UTF-8 227 130 132 E3 82 84 227 131 164 E3 83 A4 239 190 148 EF BE 94
Numeric character reference や や ヤ ヤ ﾔ ﾔ
Shift JIS 130 226 82 E2 131 132 83 84 212 D4
Character ゃ ャ ｬ
Unicode name HIRAGANA LETTER SMALL YA KATAKANA LETTER SMALL YA HALFWIDTH KATAKANA LETTER SMALL YA
Encodings decimal hex decimal hex decimal hex
Unicode 12419 U+3083 12515 U+30E3 65388 U+FF6C
UTF-8 227 130 131 E3 82 83 227 131 163 E3 83 A3 239 189 172 EF BD AC
Numeric character reference ゃ ゃ ャ ャ ｬ ｬ
Shift JIS 130 225 82 E1 131 131 83 83 172 AC
や / ヤ in Japanese Braille
や / ヤ
ya 		やあ / ヤー
yā
⠌ (braille pattern dots-34) ⠌ (braille pattern dots-34)⠒ (braille pattern dots-25)

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