Not to be confused with Sukūn , an Arabic ring-shaped diacritic marking a mute consonant.
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t
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kana gojūon
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ra
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so
ko
o
n
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yōon (palatalization)
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Multi-syllabic kana
iu
kashiko
koto
sama
shite
toki
tomo
nari
mairasesoro
yori
v
t
e
The sokuon (促音) is a Japanese symbol in the form of a small hiragana or katakana tsu. In less formal language, it is called chiisai tsu (小さいつ) or chiisana tsu (小さなつ), meaning "small tsu".[1] It serves multiple purposes in Japanese writing.
^Kawahara, Shigeto. "The phonetics of obstruent geminates, sokuon" (PDF). Rutgers University. S2CID 145942. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-11-23.
The sokuon (促音) is a Japanese symbol in the form of a small hiragana or katakana tsu. In less formal language, it is called chiisai tsu (小さいつ) or chiisana...
(kya). Addition of the small y kana is called yōon. A small tsu っ, called a sokuon, indicates that the following consonant is geminated (doubled). In Japanese...
when used outside the normal combinations (きゃ, きょ, ファ etc.), nor for the sokuon or small tsu kana っ/ッ when it is not directly followed by a consonant. Although...
/kja/. Addition of the small y kana is called yōon. A character called a sokuon, which is visually identical to a small tsu ッ, indicates that the following...
modify or combine with the preceding sign (yōon) or the following sign (sokuon). In English, a variety of case styles are used in various circumstances:...
but also arose naturally through onbin (e.g.: /yomite/ > /yoNde/) The 促音 (sokuon "moraic obstruent", /Q/, written in kana as っ or ッ): mainly arose through...
(as is vowel length). Gemination in the syllabary is represented with the sokuon, a small tsu: っ for hiragana in native words and ッ for katakana in foreign...
After the sources of the article Hepburn romanization. In Hepburn, the sokuon (っ, small tsu) is romanized t before ch. Hikaru, Saitō (2004). Hentai—H...
of small kana in modern Japanese is in the geminate consonant mark (促音 Sokuon), っ/ッ, which is a small version of つ/ツ (tsu). In native Japanese words,...
"geminate") consonant sounds are marked by doubling the consonant following a sokuon, っ; for consonants that are digraphs in Hepburn (sh, ch, ts), only the first...
on its historical derivation from む mu. In kana, a small tsu (っ), called sokuon, is used to indicate that the following consonant is geminate, and in interjections...
under modern spellings starting with じ. The different spellings for the sokuon depend on what mora (if any) was elided into the following consonant to...
distinction between regular kana and the smaller character forms (yōon and sokuon), which are used in regular orthography to mark such things as gemination...
Mōra onso) /Q/, which corresponds to a unit of Japanese orthography, the sokuon (Hiragana: ⟨っ⟩; Katakana: ⟨ッ⟩). Likewise, the moraic nasal may be analyzed...
"ni dakuten" or "ni handakuten". Full Braille representation Tsu (kana) Sokuon Frellesvig, Bjarke (2010). A History of the Japanese Language. Cambridge:...
comics and books for children. In Japanese, certain characters, such as the sokuon (促音) (little tsu, っ) that indicates a pause before the consonant it precedes...
and o respectively, and し・せ when with i and e, respectively. To write a sokuon before ち, the inputs WITH this character are: lt(s)u/xt(s)u, ti/chi. The...
conversion of つ or く (tsu, ku) to a geminate consonant (orthographically, the sokuon っ), both of which are reflected in spelling – indeed, the っ symbol for gemination...
through consonant voicing (via a dakuten or handakuten) or gemination (via a sokuon), vowel lengthening (via a chōonpu), or the insertion of the nasal mora...
meaning in Japanese, is written with the on-kun compound 札幌 (which includes sokuon as if it were a purely on compound). Gikun (義訓) and jukujikun (熟字訓) are...
speech. In informal speech, intervocalic /r/ is often changed to [ɴ] or sokuon so okaerinasai becomes okaen'nasai ("welcome back home") and sō suru to...
JIS X 0208 JIS X 0213 Unicode Name(s) Usage っ 2443 1-4-35 3063 sokuon (促音, "double consonant") Doubles the sound of the next consonant. For example, "かた"...