• The sokuon (促音) is a Japanese symbol in the form of a small hiragana or katakana tsu, as well as the various consonants represented by it. In less formal...
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  • reflected in the Hepburn romanization tsu. The small kana っ/ッ, known as sokuon, are identical but somewhat smaller. They are mainly used to indicate consonant...
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  • (kya). Addition of the small y kana is called yōon. A small tsu っ, called a sokuon, indicates that the following consonant is geminated (doubled). In Japanese...
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  • /kja/. Addition of the small y kana is called yōon. A character called a sokuon, which is visually identical to a small tsu ッ, indicates that the following...
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  • when used outside the normal combinations (きゃ, きょ, ファ etc.), nor for the sokuon or small tsu kana っ/ッ when it is not directly followed by a consonant. Although...
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  • handakuten such as ぱ (pa) or ぷ (pu), smaller kana (sutegana), such as the sokuon (っ) or in the yōon (ゃ,ゅ,ょ). The gojūon order is the prevalent system for...
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    modify or combine with the preceding sign (yōon) or the following sign (sokuon). In English, a variety of case styles are used in various circumstances:...
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  • comics and books for children. In Japanese, certain characters, such as the sokuon (促音) (little tsu, っ) that indicates a pause before the consonant it precedes...
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  • in Middle Chinese. The Meiji-era linguist Ōshima Masatake used the terms sokuon ("plosive") and hatsuon ("nasal") to describe ending consonants in Chinese...
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  • Geminate consonants are always marked by doubling the consonant following the sokuon (っ). Portals: Japan Language List of ISO romanizations Gottlieb, Nanette...
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    and o respectively, and し・せ when with i and e, respectively. To write a sokuon before ち, the inputs WITH this character are: lt(s)u/xt(s)u, ti/chi. The...
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  • of small kana in modern Japanese is in the geminate consonant mark (促音 Sokuon), っ/ッ, which is a small version of つ/ツ (tsu). In native Japanese words,...
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  • (as is vowel length). Gemination in the syllabary is represented with the sokuon, a small tsu: っ for hiragana in native words and ッ for katakana in foreign...
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    After the sources of the article Hepburn romanization. In Hepburn, the sokuon (っ, small tsu) is romanized t before ch. Hikaru, Saitō (2004). Hentai—H...
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    "geminate") consonant sounds are marked by doubling the consonant following a sokuon, っ; for consonants that are digraphs in Hepburn (sh, ch, ts), only the first...
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    B0. Braille: The other kana layout for Big5 does not include a chōonpu. Sokuon Unicode Consortium (2015-12-02) [1994-03-08]. "Shift-JIS to Unicode". Unicode...
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  • distinction between regular kana and the smaller character forms (yōon and sokuon), which are used in regular orthography to mark such things as gemination...
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  • spellings starting with じ and ず respectively. The different spellings for the sokuon depend on what mora (if any) was elided into the following consonant to...
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  • Geminate consonants are always marked by doubling the consonant following the sokuon (っ). The first letter in a sentence and all proper nouns are capitalized...
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  • "ni dakuten" or "ni handakuten". Full Braille representation Tsu (kana) Sokuon 宗司, 大宮 (1893). "第三章 濁音 半濁音及その文字". 日本辭林 (in Japanese). Tokyo: Hakubunkan...
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    on its historical derivation from む mu. In kana, a small tsu (っ), called sokuon, is used to indicate that the following consonant is geminate, and in interjections...
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  • with the Q representing a full mora of silence. In this analysis, っ (the sokuon) indicates a one-mora period of silence. Similarly, the names Tōkyō (To-u-kyo-u...
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  • conversion of つ or く (tsu, ku) to a geminate consonant (orthographically, the sokuon っ), both of which are reflected in spelling – indeed, the っ symbol for gemination...
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  • tsu, fu, i, e and o instead, according to contemporary pronunciation. the sokuon or small tsu (っ/ッ) indicates gemination and is romanized by repeating the...
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    meaning in Japanese, is written with the on-kun compound 札幌 (which includes sokuon as if it were a purely on compound). Gikun (義訓) and jukujikun (熟字訓) are...
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  • through consonant voicing (via a dakuten or handakuten) or gemination (via a sokuon), vowel lengthening (via a chōonpu), or the insertion of the nasal mora...
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  • JIS X 0208 JIS X 0213 Unicode Name(s) Usage っ 2443 1-4-35 3063 sokuon (促音, "double consonant") Doubles the sound of the next consonant. For example, "かた"...
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    but also arose naturally through onbin (e.g.: /yomite/ > /yoNde/) The 促音 (sokuon "moraic obstruent", /Q/, written in kana as っ or ッ): mainly arose through...
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  • /N/, called the hatsuon, and a mora obstruent consonant /Q/, called the sokuon. The pronunciation of these sounds varies depending on context: because...
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    (Pharyngealization in IPA) ʻOkina Aleph Apostrophe Hamza Saltillo (letter) Sokuon Spiritus lenis "Proposal to add LATIN SMALL LETTER GLOTTAL STOP to the UCS"...
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