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Contents 1 Translingual 1.1 Syllable 2 Japanese 2.1 Etymology 1 2.1.1 Hiragana character 2.1.1.1 Related terms 2.2 Etymology 2 2.2.1 Particle 2.3 Etymology 3 2.3.1 Particle 2.4 Etymology 4 2.4.1 Noun 2.5 Etymology 5 2.5.1 Noun

[edit] Translingual

The Hiragana script
あぁ	かゕが	さざ	ただ	な	はばぱ	ま	やゃ	ら	わゎ	ん
いぃ	きぎ	しじ	ちぢ	に	ひびぴ	み		り	ゐ
うぅゔ	くぐ	すず	つっづ	ぬ	ふぶぷ	む	ゆゅ	る
えぇ	けゖげ	せぜ	てで	ね	へべぺ	め		れ	ゑ
おぉ	こご	そぞ	とど	の	ほぼぽ	も	よょ	ろ	を
Additional symbols ーゝゞゟ
や Unicode: U+3084Katakana: ヤHepburn romanization: yaNihon-shiki romanization: yaPolivanov cyrillization: яJapanese braille: ⠌

[edit] Syllable

や

1. The hiragana syllable at や行あ段 (row YA, section A) in a gojūon table.

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[edit] Japanese

Stroke order

[edit] Etymology 1

Derived in the Heian period from writing the man'yōgana kanji 也 in the cursive sōsho style.

[edit] Hiragana character

や (romaji ya)

1. The /ya/ syllable.
2. The thirty-sixth character in the gojūon ordering of hiragana. The previous character is も and the next character is ゆ. The equivalent katakana character is ヤ.

[edit] Related terms

• For a list of words starting with や (ya) see: Special:Allpages/や

[edit] Etymology 2

[edit] Particle

や (romaji ya)

1. and

   Used to conjoin nouns, や (ya) implies that the list is not limited to the nouns named. Contrast with と (to), the other particle typically used to conjoin nouns, which implies that the list is limited to the stated nouns.

   • お年寄りや体の不自由な方は登録しませんか。

     おとしよりやからだのふじゆうなかたはとうろくしませんか。

     O-toshiyori ya karada no fujiyū na kata wa tōroku shimasen ka.

     Don’t seniors and the physically handicapped [and others] register?

[edit] Etymology 3

[edit] Particle

や (romaji ya)

1. (Kansai) is, are

   Variation on the Japanese copula だ (da), associated with the Kansai region and particularly Ōsaka. The use of や (ya) is common in fictional dialogue attributed to characters from Ōsaka.

   • まあ、ぼちぼちやなあ。

     Maa, bochibochi ya naa.

     Well, things are slow. (A stereotypical Ōsaka expression)

[edit] Etymology 4

[edit] Noun

や (romaji ya)

1. 矢: arrow

[edit] Etymology 5

[edit] Noun

や (romaji ya)

1. 屋: shop, store