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.

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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
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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).

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や / ヤ in Japanese Braille
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.

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