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  • May 2, 2013 at 9:23 pm #39903

    Miranda Yew
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    these two hiragana are confusing me xD

    i mean i know they are different as づ is pronounced dzu BUT in songs etc, how do you know which one they are talking about as they both sound like ‘zu’?

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    May 2, 2013 at 9:35 pm #39905

    Joel
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    Context. As in, you’ll learn which words contain づ – which is very, very few. Just as noone’s going to come at you and suddenly go “Quick! Is this ‘K’-sound a C or a K?”, noone’s going to suddenly go “Is ‘zu’ ず or づ?”

    May 3, 2013 at 5:45 pm #39924

    Anonymous

    Usually the reason why some words may contain づ is because they have been ‘rendaku’ed’ in order to make つ easier to pronounce.  For example, if you put ちから(power) and つよい(strong) together, you get ちからづよい(powerful).  It does not use ず because it was originally つ.

    Now Koichi says that づ is pronounced differently from ず, but I happen to disagree.

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