Ya (kana)

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
wiri(yi)mihinichishikii
(wu)ruyumufunutsusukuu
were(ye)mehenetesekee
woroyomohonotosokoo
n
Kana modifiers and marks
Multi-moraic 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.

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
Encodings decimal hex dec hex dec hex dec hex
Unicode 12420 U+3084 12516 U+30E4 65428 U+FF94 13043 U+32F3
UTF-8 227 130 132 E3 82 84 227 131 164 E3 83 A4 239 190 148 EF BE 94 227 139 179 E3 8B B3
Numeric character reference や や ヤ ヤ ﾔ ﾔ ㋳ ㋳
Shift JIS[2] 130 226 82 E2 131 132 83 84 212 D4
EUC-JP[3] 164 228 A4 E4 165 228 A5 E4 142 212 8E D4
GB 18030[4] 164 228 A4 E4 165 228 A5 E4 132 49 154 56 84 31 9A 38
EUC-KR[5] / UHC[6] 170 228 AA E4 171 228 AB E4
Big5 (non-ETEN kana)[7] 198 232 C6 E8 199 124 C7 7C
Big5 (ETEN / HKSCS)[8] 199 107 C7 6B 199 224 C7 E0
Character information
Preview ゃ ャ ｬ
Unicode name HIRAGANA LETTER SMALL YA KATAKANA LETTER SMALL YA HALFWIDTH KATAKANA LETTER SMALL YA
Encodings decimal hex dec hex dec 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[2] 130 225 82 E1 131 131 83 83 172 AC
EUC-JP[3] 164 227 A4 E3 165 227 A5 E3 142 172 8E AC
GB 18030[4] 164 227 A4 E3 165 227 A5 E3 132 49 150 56 84 31 96 38
EUC-KR[5] / UHC[6] 170 227 AA E3 171 227 AB E3
Big5 (non-ETEN kana)[7] 198 231 C6 E7 199 123 C7 7B
Big5 (ETEN/> / HKSCS)[8] 199 106 C7 6A 199 223 C7 DF

References

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