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 katakana
transliteration	ya
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"
unicode	U+3084, U+30E4
braille

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).

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 ヤ

Stroke order in writing や

Stroke order in writing ヤ

Other communicative representations

Japanese radiotelephony alphabet	Wabun code
大和のヤ Yamato no "Ya"

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.

• Computer encodings

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	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

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	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