In education[edit] YoungArts (YA), a scholarship program for American high school studentIn languages[edit] Ya (arrow), the Japanese word for arrow Ya (Cyrillic) (), a Cyrillic alphabet letter (which, on its own, means "I" in several Slavic languages) Ya (kana), the Romanisation of the Japanese kana and Yet another (YA), a common initial part of acronyms Yodh also written as Yaa, an Arabic letter Ya, a vocative particle in Arabic and other Semitic languages Ya (Javanese) (), a letter in the Javanese script