Sokuon
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| kana - gojūon | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ん | わ | ら | や | ま | は | な | た | さ | か | あ | |
| っ
| (ゐ) | り | み | ひ | に | ち | し | き | い | ||
| ヴ
| る | ゆ | む | ふ | ぬ | つ | す | く | う | ||
| ヶ
| (ゑ) | れ | め | へ | ね | て | せ | け | え | ||
| ー
| を | ろ | よ | も | ほ | の | と | そ | こ | お | |
| Full-sized | Sokuon | |
|---|---|---|
| Hiragana | つ | っ |
| Katakana | ツ | ッ |
The sokuon is used for various purposes. One is for showing a geminate consonant, which is represented in rōmaji by the "doubling" of the following consonant.
Examples:
- Pocky, a Japanese snack food, is written in kana as ポッキー, which is ポ po, ッ sokuon, キ ki, ー chōon, in romanized Japanese, pokkii, with the sokuon representing the doubling of the k consonant.
- Matte, the te form of the verb matsu, is written as 待って, which is 待 (kanji), っ sokuon, て te, with the sokuon representing the doubling of the t consonant.
In order to enter the sokuon using a computer or word-processor, there are several methods, such as xtu, ltu, ltsu, etc.
In the International Phonetic Alphabet, the sokuon sound is marked either with a colon-like mark or a doubled consonant:
- kite (来て, come) - kʲite
- kitte (切手, postage stamp) - kʲitːe / kʲitte / kʲit̚te
- asari (あさり) - asaɾʲi
- assari (あっさり) - asːaɾʲi / assaɾʲi
See also
- Japanese phonology gives a detailed description of the sound system of Japanese.
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