2023年5月2日 · When a word is fully composed of kanji, you can read furigana and be done with it. When a word is partially written in kanji (plus furigana) and hiragana, you read furigana and hiragana in order, either from left to right (when written horizontally), or top to bottom (when written vertially).

First character reading ends in tsu followed by k, s or t -> tsu changes to sokuon (発射 hatsu+sha = hassha) First character reading ends in ku followed by k -> ku changes to sokuon (国歌 koku + ka = kokka) First character reading ends in tsu followed by h -> tsu changes to sokuon, h changes to p (出版 shutsu + han = shuppan)

づ represented [du] (and just like [tu] became [tsu] it became [dzu]) じ represented [zi] (and just like [si] became [ɕi] it became [ʑi]). ぢ represented [di] (and just like [ti] became [tɕi] it became [dʑi]). While the exact pronunciation of these 4 letters have changed since classical Japanese, they essentially remained distinct until ...

The small っ (tsu) is usually used before a consonant to indicate gemination, less technically known as doubled consonants, which is how they are transliterated in romaji. I have seen it at the end of some of what I call "vocal noises" where I interpreted it as possibly a glottal stop.

I read your question "Do Japanese people see [tsu] as a smiling face" and read over the question several times before I got it. And I'm not a native Japanese reader (or speaker). Just like your ت (which sort of looks like a smiling face to me) and the German ü (to Japanese eyes, say), the Japanese ツ doesn't look like a smiling face to any ...

2015年8月9日 · Zhōu → tsu (origin of kana) → shuu (modern on'yomi). The next is 川, which is generally pronounced "chuan" in Chinese. Chuan → tsuan → tsu (origin of kana) → sen (modern on'yomi). Yet another argument is that the kana are derived from the kun'yomi of 州, which today is pronounced "su".

2020年6月14日 · There are a few words in Japanese where the Kanji reading does not match up with the given 音読｛おんよ｝み or 訓読｛くんよ｝み readings. These are 熟字訓｛じゅくじくん｝ particularly if the reading is more important and derived from the meaning of the word and not from a combination of the Kanji that make up the word.

2024年12月2日 · The change of "tu" to "tsu" can be attributed to stop/affricate system which refers to the tripartite contrast of alveolar stop [t], affricate [ts] and [t∫ ] in Modern Japanese. This development of alveolar stops and affricates goes well back to Late Old Japanese (the history is detailed in reference 1).

This is Romanised as a double consonant and used to represent them (with ッ) in foreign words. The reason that つ is used is that "tsu" sounds are often replaced with pauses in compound words. This is similar to the voicing of second Kanji in compound words (such as [川]{river} being read as かわ or がわ in different words).

The chiisai-tsu (small tsu) should be covered by any basic hiragana book, a good alternative is wikipedia's hiragana article. From the writing section: From the writing section: A small tsu っ, called a sokuon, indicates that the following consonant is geminated (doubled).