つ in Hiragana or ツ in Katakana is two kana, characters Japanese, which represent same the more. They are marked and occupy the 18th place of their respective spelling-book, between ち and て.

Origin

The hiragana つ and the katakana ツ come, via the Man' yōgana, of the Kanji 川.

Alternatives

Small the hiragana っ, named sokuon (促音), indicates a consonant geminated, which can appear only before a fricative or a Glottal stop; it is represented in rōmaji by doubling the consonant which follows it; in abstract writings, it is also used at the end of the word to indicate a hard or chopped articulation, to express anger or agitation for example. Small the katakana ッ fills the same office.

The katakana ツ can be combined in order to note foreign words using of the sounds which do not exist in the Japanese language:

• ツァ: “tsa”
• ツィ: “tsi”
• ツェ: “tse”
• ツォ: “tso”

Diacritic

つ and ツ can be diacrities to form づ and ヅ and to represent the sound or.

However, in the pronunciation of modern Japanese, the pronunciation of づ is replaced by that of ず; The writing づ is used very seldom.

Romanisation

These kanas differently romanisent according to the systems:

• Hepburn :
• つ and ツ: “tsu”
• づ and ヅ: “zu” (like ず)
• っ: doubly of the following consonant (except “HS”, transcribe by “HS”, and “CH”, transcribe by “tch”)
• Kunrei:
• つ and ツ: “you”
• づ and ヅ: “zu” (like ず)
• っ: doubly of the following consonant
• Nihon:
• つ and ツ: “tsu”
• づ and ヅ: “of the”
• っ: doubly of the following consonant

Layout

The hiragana つ is written in only one feature:

1. Loop open on the left.

The katakana ツ is written in three features:

1. Small diagonal feature, from left to right and upwards.
2. Small feature parallel with the first, but located a little low on the left.
3. Milks diagonal, slightly curved, traced upwards and from left to right.

This C-W communication is very similar to that of シ: only the direction and the height of the layout of the last feature are different.

Data-processing representation

• Unicode :
• っ : U+3063
• つ : U+3064
• ッ : U+30C3
• ツ : U+30C4
• づ : U+3065
• ヅ : U+30C5

See too

• Kana (characters)
• Hiragana
• Katakana

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