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What is this for? I don’t think I’ve seen it mentioned anywhere, does it extend the sound of the character immediately before it?
When I first saw it I thought it was the katakana version of a small tsu, but then I started encountering words that had ッ so it can’t be that, am I right in thinking it’s what I said? As that’s what I’ve been believing for a long time!
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Luke.
Yep!
Example ビール
In hiragana would be びいる=^..^=Right thanks, it’s nice to have that clarified, I should’ve made this post 8 months ago!
AnonymousI believe it is called the chuon, which ‘in katakana extends the vowel that comes before it, creating a long vowel sound’ (direct quote from Textfugu).
and that’s what I get for skipping the TextFugu part on katakana!
@Yggbert: You’ve been studying Japanese for quite a while now, haven’t you? I find it weird you didn’t know that before :S I don’t mean to be offensive or anything, I just assumed you would have covered that while you were learning katakana in the first place :D
@Michael it’s just one of those things I kept meaning to have clarified but kept forgetting to post about or lookup, probably because katakana is rarer.
Just for the record, when your keyboard is in Japanese mode, how do you type a chuon or a tiny つ/ツ?
I just use the dash key, to type the small characters I type xtsu / xi and so on, I’m using Google IME but this also works on my Mac using kotoeri.
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Thanks! Oh, and on my pc typing ‘xtu’ (not ‘xtsu’) gets tiny tsu, don’t really know why.
つ can be pronounced and transliterated a bunch of different ways, including “tu.” “Tsu” is just the most common.
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Hashi.
Small つ are also generated automatically when you type a double letter – e.g. けっこう = kekkou
@missingno15: lolwut?
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