U+3083 "ゃ" Hiragana Letter Small Ya Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ゃ
U+3083 "ゃ" Hiragana Letter Small Ya is a smaller version of the standard Hiragana character や (ya), and it is used in Japanese writing to modify the sound of preceding characters, specifically to create palatalized or contracted syllables such as きゃ (kya), しゃ (sha), or ちゃ (cha). As a key component of the Hiragana script, this small character does not stand alone in modern Japanese but instead combines with other Hiragana letters to represent sounds that are essential for accurate pronunciation and vocabulary in the language.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+3083 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Hiragana Letter Small Ya |
| Block | Hiragana |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ゃ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ゃ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x82 0x83 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x3083 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00003083 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u3083 |