Ya (kana)
Character of the Japanese writing system
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).
や can be used by itself as a grammatical particle to connect words in a nonexhaustive list (see Japanese particles#ya).
01Other communicative representations
| Japanese radiotelephony alphabet | Wabun code |
| 大和のヤ Yamato no "Ya" |
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| Japanese Navy Signal Flag | Japanese semaphore | Japanese manual syllabary (fingerspelling) | Braille dots-34 Japanese Braille |
- 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* |
* 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.
| 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 | 130 226 | 82 E2 | 131 132 | 83 84 | 212 | D4 | ||
| EUC-JP | 164 228 | A4 E4 | 165 228 | A5 E4 | 142 212 | 8E D4 | ||
| GB 18030 | 164 228 | A4 E4 | 165 228 | A5 E4 | 132 49 154 56 | 84 31 9A 38 | ||
| EUC-KR / UHC | 170 228 | AA E4 | 171 228 | AB E4 | ||||
| Big5 (non-ETEN kana) | 198 232 | C6 E8 | 199 124 | C7 7C | ||||
| Big5 (ETEN / HKSCS) | 199 107 | C7 6B | 199 224 | C7 E0 | ||||
| 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 | 130 225 | 82 E1 | 131 131 | 83 83 | 172 | AC |
| EUC-JP | 164 227 | A4 E3 | 165 227 | A5 E3 | 142 172 | 8E AC |
| GB 18030 | 164 227 | A4 E3 | 165 227 | A5 E3 | 132 49 150 56 | 84 31 96 38 |
| EUC-KR / UHC | 170 227 | AA E3 | 171 227 | AB E3 | ||
| Big5 (non-ETEN kana) | 198 231 | C6 E7 | 199 123 | C7 7B | ||
| Big5 (ETEN/> / HKSCS) | 199 106 | C7 6A | 199 223 | C7 DF | ||
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Images, from Wikimedia Commons:
- Hiragana や stroke order animation.gif by Sirgazil, CC0
- Katakana ヤ stroke order animation.gif by Sirgazil, CC0
- や-bw.png by No machine-readable author provided. D.328 assumed (based on copyright claims)., CC BY-SA 3.0
- ヤ-bw.png by Made by me, M4RC0, using Photoshop. We are making this kind of picture following the protocol of the section : Bitmap Image (PNG), CC BY-SA 2.0
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