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  • April 30, 2012 at 1:47 pm #30067

    Luke
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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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    April 30, 2012 at 1:56 pm #30069

    zeldaskitten
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    Yep!
    Example ビール
    In hiragana would be びいる

    =^..^=
    April 30, 2012 at 1:58 pm #30070

    Luke
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    Right thanks, it’s nice to have that clarified, I should’ve made this post 8 months ago!

    April 30, 2012 at 2:16 pm #30071

    Anonymous

    I 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).

    April 30, 2012 at 2:40 pm #30072

    Luke
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    and that’s what I get for skipping the TextFugu part on katakana!

    April 30, 2012 at 6:09 pm #30077

    MisterM2402 [Michael]
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    @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

    April 30, 2012 at 8:42 pm #30080

    missingno15
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    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_l4IXdHQzLI

    May 1, 2012 at 6:20 am #30084

    Luke
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    @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.

    May 1, 2012 at 8:02 am #30085

    Tom Jensen
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    Just for the record, when your keyboard is in Japanese mode, how do you type a chuon or a tiny つ/ツ?

    May 1, 2012 at 8:36 am #30086

    Luke
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    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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    May 1, 2012 at 8:56 am #30090

    Tom Jensen
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    Thanks! Oh, and on my pc typing ‘xtu’ (not ‘xtsu’) gets tiny tsu, don’t really know why.

    May 1, 2012 at 9:19 am #30093

    Hashi
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    つ can be pronounced and transliterated a bunch of different ways, including “tu.” “Tsu” is just the most common.

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    May 1, 2012 at 11:24 pm #30125

    Joel
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    Small つ are also generated automatically when you type a double letter – e.g. けっこう = kekkou

    May 2, 2012 at 6:31 pm #30237

    MisterM2402 [Michael]
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    @missingno15: lolwut?

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