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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 [t͡sɯᵝ] ⓘ , reflected in the Hepburn romanization tsu .
In addition, handakuten can be combined with either katakana ツ or ト (tsu and to) to make a [tu̜] sound, ツ゚ or ト゚. In Miyakoan, handakuten can be used with イ (normally [i]) to represent the vowel [ɨ]. In informal writing, dakuten is occasionally used on vowels to indicate a shocked or strangled articulation; for example, on あ ...
Katakana with dakuten or handakuten follow the gojūon kana without them. Characters shi シ, tsu ツ, so ソ, and n ン look very similar in print except for the slant and stroke shape. These differences in slant and shape are more prominent when written with an ink brush.
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si, ti, tu, hu, wi, we and wo are usually romanized respectively as shi, chi, 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 following consonant.
The dakuten form of this character is used when transliterating "di" occasionally, as opposed to チ's dakuten form, or a de assigned to a small i; for example, Aladdin is written as アラジン Arajin, and radio is written as ラジオ. In the Ainu language, シ is used to represent the ʃi sound.
Yōon and yōon-dakuten are also added to chi and shi to write ti, di and si, zi found in foreign borrowings; similarly gōyōon and gōyōon-dakuten are added to tsu to write tu, du. This differs from the system used in kana, where the base syllables are te and to respectively, and a subscript vowel i or u is added.
versions of kana with a dakuten such as が (ga) or だ (da), or kana with 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 collating Japanese in Japan. For example, dictionaries are ordered using this method.