U+30E4 "ヤ" Katakana Letter Ya Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ヤ
U+30E4 "ヤ" Katakana Letter Ya is a character from the Japanese katakana syllabary, representing the syllable "ya" and is used primarily to transcribe foreign loanwords, onomatopoeia, and for emphasis or stylistic purposes in written Japanese, distinct from its hiragana counterpart "や" in form and function.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+30E4 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Katakana Letter Ya |
| Block | Katakana |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ヤ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ヤ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x83 0xA4 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x30E4 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000030E4 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u30e4 |