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The word タクシー (takushī, ' taxi ') written vertically with vertical chōonpu. The chōonpu (Japanese: 長音符, lit. "long sound symbol"), also known as chōonkigō (長音記号), onbiki (音引き), bōbiki (棒引き), or Katakana-Hiragana Prolonged Sound Mark by the Unicode Consortium, is a Japanese symbol that indicates a chōon, or a long vowel of two morae in length.
bōsen (棒線, "bar line") Indicates a lengthened vowel sound. Often used with katakana. The direction of writing depends on the direction of text. ゛ 212B: 1-1-11: 309B (standalone), 3099 : dakuten (濁点, "voiced point") nigori (濁り, "voiced") ten-ten (点々, "dots") Used with both hiragana and katakana to indicate a voiced sound.
Katakana (片仮名、カタカナ, IPA: [katakaꜜna, kataꜜkana]) is a Japanese syllabary, one component of the Japanese writing system along with hiragana, [2] kanji and in some cases the Latin script (known as rōmaji). The word katakana means "fragmentary kana", as the katakana characters are derived from components or fragments of more ...
The long vowel in kō (indicated in katakana by a long line) is shown by moving the sign ko downward. In written kana, a consonant cluster involving y or w is indicated by writing the second kana smaller than the first; a geminate consonant by writing a small tu for the first segment. In foreign borrowings, vowels may also be written small.
To separate a title from a subtitle on the same line; in English a colon is used for this purpose. To mark subtitles: 〜概要〜 In pairs, in place of dashes or brackets: 〜〜答え〜〜 To indicate origin: フランス〜 (from France) To indicate a long or drawn-out vowel (ですよね〜 or あ〜〜〜), usually for comic or cute effect
A horizontal line which turns and ends in a hook facing left. A curved vertical line that cuts through the first line. A small curved line on the right. Stroke order in writing カ. The Katakana カ is made with two strokes: A horizontal line which turns and ends in a hook facing left. A curved vertical line that cuts through the first line.
Tsu (hiragana: つ, katakana: ツ) is one of the Japanese kana, each of which represents one mora.Both are phonemically /tɯ/, reflected in the Nihon-shiki and Kunrei-shiki Romanization tu, although for phonological reasons, the actual pronunciation is ⓘ, reflected in the Hepburn romanization tsu.
Katakana Phonetic Extensions is a Unicode block containing additional small katakana characters for writing the ... T. K. (2000-09-04), JIS X 0213 symbols part-1: L2 ...