Ya (kana)
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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 | ||
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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 |
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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[]
![]() Stroke order in writing や |
![]() Stroke order in writing ヤ |
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Other communicative representations[]
Japanese radiotelephony alphabet | Wabun code |
大和のヤ Yamato no "Ya" |
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- Full Braille representation
や / ヤ in Japanese Braille | ||||
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や / ヤ ya |
やあ / ヤー yā |
ゃ/ャ Yōon* |
゛ゃ/゛ャ Dakuten + Yōon* |
゜ゃ/゜ャ Handakuten + Yōon* |
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* 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 | ||||
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Unicode name | HIRAGANA LETTER YA | KATAKANA LETTER YA | HALFWIDTH KATAKANA LETTER YA | CIRCLED KATAKANA YA | ||||
Encodings | decimal | hex | decimal | hex | decimal | hex | decimal | 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 |
Preview | ゃ | ャ | ャ | |||
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Unicode name | HIRAGANA LETTER SMALL YA | KATAKANA LETTER SMALL YA | HALFWIDTH KATAKANA LETTER SMALL YA | |||
Encodings | decimal | hex | decimal | hex | decimal | 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[]
- ^ Jim Gleeson (2013). "Contracted sounds". Japanese Hiragana: An Introductory Japanese Language Workbook. Tuttle Publishing. ISBN 9781462913978.
- ^ Jump up to: a b Unicode Consortium (2015-12-02) [1994-03-08]. "Shift-JIS to Unicode".
- ^ Jump up to: a b Unicode Consortium; IBM. "EUC-JP-2007". International Components for Unicode.
- ^ Jump up to: a b Standardization Administration of China (SAC) (2005-11-18). GB 18030-2005: Information Technology—Chinese coded character set.
- ^ Jump up to: a b Unicode Consortium; IBM. "IBM-970". International Components for Unicode.
- ^ Jump up to: a b Steele, Shawn (2000). "cp949 to Unicode table". Microsoft / Unicode Consortium.
- ^ Jump up to: a b Unicode Consortium (2015-12-02) [1994-02-11]. "BIG5 to Unicode table (complete)".
- ^ Jump up to: a b van Kesteren, Anne. "big5". Encoding Standard. WHATWG.
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