Does 耶 still hold any value in Japanese?


While I was flipping through a kanji dictionary (2013's Kodansha KLD), I came
across 耶{や} , which in the book, said it was the interrogative particle か.
However, after a bit more research, it doesn't seem to yield anything outside
of Chinese; is it nowadays no longer used as an interrogative particle, or
just not used at all?




If you want an honest answer, it has little to no value in the modern
Japanese-speaking world.

For the vast majority of Japanese-speakers, 「耶{や}​ 」 is just a kanji for that
syllable used in some girls' names.

Unless one is a kanji scholar or one just wants to nitpick for the heck of it,
「耶」 has no other use in modern Japanese.




If you want an honest answer, it has little to no value in the modern
Japanese-speaking world.

For the vast majority of Japanese-speakers, 「耶{や}​ 」 is just a kanji for that
syllable used in some girls' names.

Unless one is a kanji scholar or one just wants to nitpick for the heck of it,
「耶」 has no other use in modern Japanese.

