[noun](phonology,orthography,grammar) the eighth row of the 五十音図(literally “table of the fifty sounds”), consisting of the five kana や/ヤ(ya), い/イ(i) (alternatively, 𛀆/𛄠(yi)), ゆ/ユ(yu), え/エ(e) (alternatively, 𛀁/𛄡(ye)) and よ/ヨ(yo), two of which are taken from the あ行(“a-row”) to represent classical grammatical inflection in modern text