U+3084 "や" Hiragana Letter Ya Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+3084 "や" Hiragana Letter Ya is a character in the Japanese hiragana syllabary representing the syllable "ya," one of the five single-vowel-based sounds in the Japanese language, specifically in the y-line. It is derived from the Chinese character 也 and is used primarily in native Japanese words, grammatical particles, and as a building block for compound characters like ゃ, which denotes a palatalized consonant when combined with other hiragana. This character appears in standard Japanese text for words such as やま (yama, meaning mountain) and plays a fundamental role in the Japanese writing system.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+3084 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Hiragana Letter Ya |
| Block | Hiragana |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | や |
| HTML Hex Encoding | や |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x82 0x84 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x3084 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00003084 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u3084 |