や

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Character	や
Unicode name	HIRAGANA LETTER YA
Codepoint	U+3084

Japanese

Stroke order

Etymology 1

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

Pronunciation

• IPA: [jä]

Syllable

や (Hepburn romanization ya)

1. The hiragana syllable や (ya), whose equivalent in katakana is ヤ (ya). It is the thirty-sixth syllable of the gojūon order, and its position in gojūon tables is や行あ段 (YA-gyō, A-dan; “row YA, section A”).

Related terms

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

See also

• (Hiragana) 平仮名; あぁ, いぃ, うぅゔ, えぇ, おぉ, かゕが, きぎ, くぐ, けゖげ, こご, さざ, しじ, すず, せぜ, そぞ, ただ, ちぢ, つっづ, てで, とど, な, に, ぬ, ね, の, はばぱ, ひびぴ, ふぶぷ, へべぺ, ほぼぽ, ま, み, む, め, も, やゃ, ゆゅ, よょ, ら, り, る, れ, ろ, わゎ, ゐ, ゑ, を, ん, ー, ゝ, ゞ, ゟ

Etymology 2

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?

Etymology 3

Particle

や (romaji ya)

1. (Kansai) is, are

   Variation on the Japanese copula だ (da), associated with Kansai dialect, 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)

Etymology 4

Noun

や (romaji ya)

1. 矢: arrow

Etymology 5

Noun

や (romaji ya)

1. 屋: shop, store

Suffix

や (romaji ya)

1. 屋: shop, person who does or sells that thing
2. 家: house