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
japanese hiragana ya		 katakana
japanese katakana ya
transliterationya
hiragana origin也
katakana origin也
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⠌
kana gojūon
warayamahanatasakaa
wiriyimihinichishikii
wuruyumufunutsusukuu
wereyemehenetesekee
woroyomohonotosokoo
n
Kana modifiers and marks
Multi-syllabic kana

When small and preceded by an -i kana, this kana represents a palatalization of the preceding consonant sound with the [a] vowel (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 や ヤ
yaa
yā		 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 communicative representations
  • Full Braille representation
や / ヤ in Japanese Braille
や / ヤ
ya		やあ / ヤー
yā		ゃ/ャ
Yōon*		゛ゃ/゛ャ
Dakuten + Yōon*		゜ゃ/゜ャ
Handakuten + Yōon*
⠌ (braille pattern dots-34) ⠌ (braille pattern dots-34) ⠒ (braille pattern dots-25) ⠈ (braille pattern dots-4) ⠘ (braille pattern dots-45) ⠨ (braille pattern dots-46)

* 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やヤﾔ㋳
Unicode name HIRAGANA LETTER YA KATAKANA LETTER YA HALFWIDTH KATAKANA LETTER YA CIRCLED KATAKANA YA
Encodingsdecimalhexdechexdechexdechex
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ゃャｬ
Unicode name HIRAGANA LETTER SMALL YA KATAKANA LETTER SMALL YA HALFWIDTH KATAKANA LETTER SMALL YA
Encodingsdecimalhexdechexdechex
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
  1. Jim Gleeson (2013). "Contracted sounds". Japanese Hiragana: An Introductory Japanese Language Workbook. Tuttle Publishing. ISBN 9781462913978.
  2. Unicode Consortium (2015-12-02) [1994-03-08]. "Shift-JIS to Unicode".
  3. Unicode Consortium; IBM. "EUC-JP-2007". International Components for Unicode.
  4. Standardization Administration of China (SAC) (2005-11-18). GB 18030-2005: Information Technology—Chinese coded character set.
  5. Unicode Consortium; IBM. "IBM-970". International Components for Unicode.
  6. Steele, Shawn (2000). "cp949 to Unicode table". Microsoft / Unicode Consortium.
  7. Unicode Consortium (2015-12-02) [1994-02-11]. "BIG5 to Unicode table (complete)".
  8. van Kesteren, Anne. "big5". Encoding Standard. WHATWG.
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