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This is the pronunciation key for IPA transcriptions of Japanese on Wikipedia. It provides a set of symbols to represent the pronunciation of Japanese in Wikipedia articles, and example words that illustrate the sounds that correspond to them.
In the 10th century, e and ye progressively merged into ye, and then during the Edo period the pronunciation changed from /je/ to /e/. However, during the Meiji period, linguists almost unanimously agreed on the kana for yi, ye, and wu. π and π’ are thought to have never occurred as morae in Japanese, and π was merged with γ and γ¨.
The [jΙ] (ye) sound is believed to have existed in pre-Classical Japanese, mostly before the advent of kana, and can be represented by the man'yΕgana kanji ζ±. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] There was an archaic Hiragana ( ) [ 7 ] derived from the man'yΕgana ye kanji ζ±, [ 5 ] which is encoded into Unicode at code point U+1B001 (π), [ 8 ] [ 9 ] but it is ...
In the Edo period and the Meiji period, some Japanese linguists tried to separate kana i and kana yi. The shapes of characters differed with each linguist. π and π were just two of many glyphs. They were phonetic symbols to fill in the blanks of the gojuon table, but Japanese people did not separate them in normal writing. i Traditional kana
The Meiji-era Classical Japanese version of the Bible renders Jehovah as γ±γγ (Yehoba), and γ± (ye) is also used to transcribe any Hebrew name spelled with Je in English (pronounced "ye" in Hebrew, though), such as Jephthah (γ±γγΏ, Yefuta); the modern Japanese version, on the other hand, only uses γ¨ (e), hence γ¨γγ (Ehoba) and ...
Tsu (hiragana: γ€, katakana: γ) is one of the Japanese kana, each of which represents one mora.Both are phonemically /tΙ―/, reflected in the Nihon-shiki and Kunrei-shiki Romanization tu, although for phonological reasons, the actual pronunciation is β, reflected in the Hepburn romanization tsu.
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Wi (hiragana: γ, katakana: γ°) is an obsolete Japanese kana (Japanese phonetic characters, each of which represents one mora), which is normally pronounced [i] in current-day Japanese. The combination of a W-column kana letter with γγ in hiragana was introduced to represent [vi] in the 19th century and 20th century.