Ya (kana)
ya | |||
---|---|---|---|
| |||
transliteration | ya | ||
hiragana origin | 也 | ||
katakana origin | 也 | ||
spelling kana | 大和のヤ Yamato no "ya" | ||
unicode | U+3084, U+30E4 | ||
braille |
kana gojūon | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Kana modifiers and marks | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Multi-syllabic kana | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
や, in hiragana or ヤ in katakana, 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 not a separate sound but a modification of that of another (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, yah |
やあ, やぁ やー |
ヤア, ヤァ ヤー |
Stroke order
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.
Preview | や | ヤ | ヤ | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Unicode name | HIRAGANA LETTER YA | KATAKANA LETTER YA | HALFWIDTH KATAKANA LETTER YA | |||
Encodings | decimal | hex | dec | hex | dec | 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 |
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 |
References
- ^ Jim Gleeson (2013). "Contracted sounds". Japanese Hiragana: An Introductory Japanese Language Workbook. Tuttle Publishing. ISBN 9781462913978.